Publication Cover
Local Environment
The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 7
118
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Practice Reviews

Street vendors and the human rights to water and sanitation: a scoping review

, &
Pages 902-918 | Received 14 Sep 2023, Accepted 04 Feb 2024, Published online: 19 Mar 2024

References

  • Albuquerque, C. 2014. “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. Human Rights Council. https://Documents-Dds-Ny.Un.Org/Doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/069/10/PDF/G1406910.Pdf?OpenElement. Access March 2023”. Human Rights Council. https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/069/10/PDF/G1406910.pdf?OpenElement.
  • Alfers, Laura. 2009. Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana. 1 ed. Manchester: WIEGO.
  • Arambulo, P., et al. 1994. “Street Food Vending in Latin America.” Bulletin of Pan America Health Organization (PAHO) 28 (4): 344–354.
  • Benny-Ollivierra, Chandra, and Neela Badrie. 2007. “HYGIENIC PRACTICES BY VENDORS OF THE STREET FOOD “DOUBLES” AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF VENDING PRACTICES IN TRINIDAD, WEST INDIES.” Journal of Food Safety 27 (1), 66–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4565.2007.00061.x.
  • Bhowmik, Sharit. org. 2010. Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy. New Delhi: Routledge.
  • Boonjubun, Chaitawat. 2022. “Struggles of Street Food Vendors in Helsinki: A Study of Food Truck and Fixed Stall Vending Using Municipal Land.” Local Environment 27 (7): 801–823. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2077711.
  • Bromley, Ray. 2000. “Street Vending and Public Policy: A Global Review.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 20 (1/2): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330010789052.
  • Chen, Martha, and Françoise Carré. 2020. The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. 1 ed. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429200724.
  • Choudhury, Manisha, Lipi B. Mahanta, Jayashree Sarmah Goswami, and Meenakshi Dutta Mazumder. 2011. “Will Capacity Building Training Interventions Given to Street Food Vendors Give Us Safer Food?: A Cross-Sectional Study from India.” Food Control 22 (8): 1233–1239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.01.023.
  • Coletto, Diego, Lema Jaber, and Linus Vanhellemont. 2021. “Street Vendors in Lima in the Time of COVID-19: Guilty or Oppressed?” Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes 65 (4): 435–447. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12712.
  • Cortese, Rayza Dal Molin, Marcela Boro Veiros, Charles Feldman, and Suzi Barletto Cavalli. 2016. “Food Safety and Hygiene Practices of Vendors During the Chain of Street Food Production in Florianopolis, Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study.” Food Control 62 (abril): 178–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2015.10.027.
  • Cronk, Ryan, Tom Slaymaker, and Jamie Bartram. 2015. “Monitoring Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Non-household Settings: Priorities for Policy and Practice.” International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Sixth European PhD students workshop: Water and health - Cannes 2014, 218 (8): 694–703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2015.03.003.
  • Czarniecka-Skubina, Ewa, Joanna Trafiałek, Michał Wiatrowski, and Artur Głuchowski. 2018. “An Evaluation of the Hygiene Practices of European Street Food Vendors and a Preliminary Estimation of Food Safety for Consumers, Conducted in Paris.” Journal of Food Protection 81 (10): 1614–1621. https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-18-165.
  • Da Silva, Luciclecia Edjanira, Willyane Da Silva Ferreira Dos Santos, and Márcia Gabrielle Silva Viana. 2020. “Análise Microbiológica Das Mãos de Manipuladores de Alimentos.” Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção 10 (1), https://doi.org/10.17058/jeic.v1i1.12905.
  • De Lima, Danyele Precibicien, Caroline Opolski Medeiros, Francine Dolberth Dardin, and Lize Stangarlin-Fiori. 2019. “Implementation of Good Hygiene Practices in Food Trucks with and Without the Intervention of a Food Safety Expert.” Journal of Food Safety 39 (3): e12637. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfs.12637.
  • Duque, María Osley Garzón, Sebastián García, Daniel Tamayo, Doris Cardona Arango, Ángela María Segura Cardona, Fabio León Rodríguez Ospina, Catalina Betancur Vasquez, and Diego Alejandro Marsiglia. 2021. “Sociodemographic, Environmental and Labor Conditions Related to the Presence of Conjunctivitis and Skin Irritation in a Group of Informal Street Vendors in Downtown Medellin, 2015–2019.” Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho 19 (1): 13–26. https://doi.org/10.47626/1679-4435-2021-525.
  • Estrada-Garcia, T., C. Lopez-Saucedo, B. Zamarripa-Ayala, M. R. Thompson, L. Gutierrez-Cogco, A. Mancera-Martinez, and A. Escobar-Gutierrez. 2004. “Prevalence of Escherichia Coli and Salmonella Spp. in Street-Vended Food of Open Markets (Tianguis) and General Hygienic and Trading Practices in Mexico City.” Epidemiology and Infection 132 (6): 1181–1184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268804003036.
  • Ferrari, Auriane Morellato, Jhenifer de Souza Couto Oliveira, and Jackline Freitas Brilhante de São José. 2021. “Street Food in Espírito Santo, Brazil: A Study About Good Handling Practices and Food Microbial Quality.” Food Science and Technology 41 (suppl 2): 549–556. https://doi.org/10.1590/fst.31620.
  • Figueroa-Ducoing, Belem Karina, Alma Karina Carrillo-Sanchez, Sandra Rivera-Gutierrez, Diana Rios-Muñiz, Teresa Estrada-Garcia, and Jorge Francisco Cerna-Cortes. 2022. “In Mexico City, Fresh-Squeezed Street-Vended Orange Juice is Contaminated with Fecal Coliforms, Escherichia Coli, and Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli: A Potential Risk for Acquiring Foodborne Diseases.” Food Science and Technology 42 (2): e52022. https://doi.org/10.1590/fst.52022.
  • Franklyn, Sherrae, and Neela Badrie. 2015. “Vendor Hygienic Practices and Consumer Perception of Food Safety During the Carnival Festival on the Island of Tobago, West Indies: Food Safety During Carnival Festival, Tobago.” International Journal of Consumer Studies 39 (2): 145–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12162.
  • Ghatak, Ishani. 2018. “Urban Street Vending Practices: An Investigation of Ethnic Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes, and Risks among Untrained Chinese Vendors in Chinatown, Kolkata.” Journal of Ethnic Foods 5 (4): 272-285.
  • Ghosh, Moushumi, Sidhi Wahi, Mukesh Kumar, and Abhijit Ganguli. 2007. “Prevalence of Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus Aureus and Shigella Spp. in Some Raw Street Vended Indian Foods.” International Journal of Environmental Health Research 17 (2): 151–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603120701219204.
  • Greed, C. 2006. “The Role of the Public Toilet: Pathogen Transmitter or Health Facilitator?” Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 27 (2): 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1191/0143624406bt151oa.
  • Heller, Leo. 2019. “A/HRC/42/47: The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation in Spheres of Life Beyond the Household with an Emphasis on Public Spaces”.
  • Heller, L. 2022. The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz.
  • Ianamura, R. B. R. 2006. “Higiene pessoal fora da residência: os sanitários públicos na área central da cidade de São Paulo.” Escola de Enfermagem, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas.
  • ICED. 2019. “Revealing and Strengthening the Links Between WASH, Productivity, and Well-Being for Informal Vendors in Durban, South Africa, and Nakuru, Kenya”. http://icedfacility.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ICED-WASH-and-labour-productivity-research_Final-clean-July-2019.pdf.
  • International Labour Office. 2016. “WaSH @ work: a self trainning handbook”. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_dialogue/—sector/documents/publication/wcms_535058.pdf.
  • International Labour Office. 2018. “Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture”. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—dgreports/—dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_626831.pdf.
  • Kundu, Satyajit, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Sharmin Akter, Achia Aktar, Md Azharul Islam, Ram Proshad, and Md Shafiqul Islam Khan. 2021. “Effect of Vendors’ Socio-Demography and Other Factors on Hygienic Practices of Street Food Shops.” Journal of Foodservice Business Research 24 (4): 445–456. https://doi.org/10.1080/15378020.2020.1870785.
  • Letuka, Ponts’o, Jane Nkhebenyane, and Oriel Thekisoe. 2021. “Street Food Handlers’ Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Self-Reported Practices and Consumers’ Perceptions About Street Food Vending in Maseru, Lesotho.” British Food Journal 123 (13): 302–316. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2020-0595.
  • Lohrey, S., M. Chua, C. Gros, J. Faucet, and J. K. W. Lee. 2021. “Perceptions of Heat-Health Impacts and the Effects of Knowledge and Preventive Actions by Outdoor Workers in Hanoi, Vietnam.” Science of The Total Environment 794 (novembro): 148260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148260.
  • Lues, Jan F. R., Mpeli R. Rasephei, Pierre Venter, and Maria M. Theron. 2006. “Assessing Food Safety and Associated Food Handling Practices in Street Food Vending.” International Journal of Environmental Health Research 16 (5): 319–328. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603120600869141.
  • Ma, Lihua, Hong Chen, Huizhe Yan, Lifeng Wu, and Wenbin Zhang. 2019. “Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of Street Food Vendors and Consumers in Handan, a Third Tier City in China.” BMC Public Health 19 (1): 1128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7475-9.
  • Mahon, B. E., J. Sobel, J. M. Townes, C. Mendoza, M. Gudiel Lemus, F. Cano, and R. V. Tauxe. 1999. “Surveying Vendors of Street-Vended Food: A New Methodology Applied in two Guatemalan Cities.” Epidemiology and Infection 122 (3): 409–416. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026889900240X
  • Maroko, Andrew R., Kim Hopper, Caitlin Gruer, Maayan Jaffe, Erica Zhen, and Marni Sommer. 2021. “Public Restrooms, Periods, and People Experiencing Homelessness: An Assessment of Public Toilets in High Needs Areas of Manhattan, New York.” Editado por Sean A. Kidd. PLoS One 16 (6): e0252946. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252946.
  • Martínez, Lina, and John Rennie Short. 2022. “The Informal City: Exploring the Variety of the Street Vending Economy.” Sustainability 14 (12): 7213. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127213.
  • Marutha, Khomotso J., and Paul K. Chelule. 2020. “Safe Food Handling Knowledge and Practices of Street Food Vendors in Polokwane Central Business District.” Foods (Basel, Switzerland) 9 (11): 1560. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9111560.
  • McKay, Fiona H., Arbind Singh, Sangeeta Singh, Suvajee Good, and Richard H. Osborne. 2016. “Street Vendors in Patna, India: Understanding the Socio-Economic Profile, Livelihood and Hygiene Practices.” Food Control 70 (dezembro): 281–285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.05.061.
  • Meher, Sonu R., and Pushkar S. Ghatole. 2020. “A Study of Common Health Problems and Utilization of Healthcare Facilities among Self-Employed Street Vendors of Chandrapur District of Maharashtra.” International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7 (7): 2782–2789. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20203015.
  • Mensah, Patience, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Kwaku Owusu-Darko, and Anthony Ablordey. 2002. “Street Foods in Accra, Ghana: How Safe Are They?” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80 (7): 546–554.
  • Minh, Nguyen Phuoc. 2017. “Food Safety Knowledge and Hygiene Practice of Street Vendors in Mekong River Delta Region.” BioTechnology: An Indian Journal 12 (24): 6.
  • Mjoka, Joanne, and Mosa Selepe. 2017. “Food Hygiene Practices and Attitudes of the Street Food Vendors at KwaDlangezwa.” Northern KwaZulu Natal 3: 6. http://www.ajhtl.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/article_9_vol_6__3__2017.pdf.
  • Moffette, David. 2020. “The Jurisdictional Games of Immigration Policing: Barcelona’s Fight Against Unauthorized Street Vending.” Theoretical Criminology 24 (2): 258–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618811693.
  • Moreira, Fernanda Deister, Sonaly Rezende, and Fabiana Passos. 2021. “On-Street Toilets for Sanitation Access in Urban Public Spaces: A Systematic Review.” Utilities Policy 70 (junho): 101186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2021.101186.
  • Muyanja, Charles, Leontina Nayiga, Namugumya Brenda, and George Nasinyama. 2011. “Practices, Knowledge and Risk Factors of Street Food Vendors in Uganda.” Food Control 22 (10): 1551–1558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.01.016.
  • Neves-Silva, Priscila, Giselle Isabele Martins, and Léo Heller. 2018. “‘A gente tem acesso de favores, né?’. A percepção de pessoas em situação de rua sobre os direitos humanos à água e ao esgotamento sanitário.” Cadernos de Saúde Pública 34 (3), https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311x00024017.
  • Nunes, Bruno N., Adriano G. Cruz, Jose A.F. Faria, Anderson S. Sant´ Ana, Ramon Silva, and Mirian R.L. Moura. 2010. “A Survey on the Sanitary Condition of Commercial Foods of Plant Origin Sold in Brazil.” Food Control 21 (1): 50–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2009.03.016.
  • Page, Matthew J., Joanne E. McKenzie, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Isabelle Boutron, Tammy C. Hoffmann, Cynthia D. Mulrow, Larissa Shamseer, Tetzlaff Jennifer M., Akl Elie A., Brennan Sue E., Chou Roger, et al. 2021. “The PRISMA 2020 Statement: An Updated Guideline for Reporting Systematic Reviews.” Systematic Reviews 10 (1): 89. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01626-4.
  • Peimani, Nastaran, and Hesam Kamalipour. 2022. “Informal Street Vending: A Systematic Review.” Land 11 (6): 829. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060829.
  • Prevolšek, Vanja, Andrej Ovca, and Mojca Jevšnik. 2021. “Fulfilment of Technical and Hygienic Requirements among Street Food Vendors in Slovenia.” British Food Journal 123 (13): 105–123. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-11-2020-1056.
  • QSSupplies. 2021. “Which Cities Have The Most and Fewest Public Toilets?” 2021. https://www.qssupplies.co.uk/the-public-toilet-index.html.
  • Rajaraman, Divya, Sandra M. Travasso, and S. Jody Heymann. 2013. “A Qualitative Study of Access to Sanitation Amongst Low-Income Working Women in Bangalore, India.” Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 3 (3): 432–440. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2013.114.
  • Recchi, Sara. 2021. “Informal Street Vending: A Comparative Literature Review.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 41 (7/8): 805–825. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2020-0285.
  • Reddy, A. Amarender, Sandra Ricart, and Timothy Cadman. 2020. “Driving Factors of Food Safety Standards in India: Learning from Street-Food Vendors’ Behaviour and Attitude.” Food Security 12 (6): 1201–1217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01048-5.
  • Rheinländer, Thilde, Mette Olsen, John Abubakar Bakang, Harriet Takyi, Flemming Konradsen, and Helle Samuelsen. 2008. “Keeping Up Appearances: Perceptions of Street Food Safety in Urban Kumasi, Ghana.” Journal of Urban Health 85 (6): 952–964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-008-9318-3.
  • Samapundo, S., T. N. Cam Thanh, R. Xhaferi, and F. Devlieghere. 2016. “Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Street Food Vendors and Consumers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.” Food Control 70 (dezembro): 79–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.05.037.
  • Sharma, Neha, Kamalpreet Singh, Devinder Toor, Somnath S. Pai, Rishika Chakraborty, and Khalid M. Khan. 2020. “Antibiotic Resistance in Microbes from Street Fruit Drinks and Hygiene Behavior of the Vendors in Delhi, India.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (13): 4829. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134829.
  • Shiningeni, Daphney, Percy Chimwamurombe, Renatus Shilangale, and Jane Misihairabgwi. 2019. “Prevalence of Pathogenic Bacteria in Street Vended Ready-to-Eat Meats in Windhoek, Namibia.” Meat Science 148 (fevereiro): 223–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2018.05.014.
  • Singh, Ansk Kumar, Puja Dudeja, Nitin Kaushal, and Sandip Mukherji. 2016. “Impact of Health Education Intervention on Food Safety and Hygiene of Street Vendors: A Pilot Study.” Medical Journal Armed Forces India 72 (3): 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mjafi.2016.02.008.
  • Souza, Giovanna Carbonera de, Celso Tadeu Barbosa dos Santos, Anderson Assunção Andrade, and Luciene Alves. 2015. “Comida de rua: avaliação das condições higiênico-sanitárias de manipuladores de alimentos.” Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 20 (8): 2329–2338. https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232015208.14922014.
  • Toh, Poh See, and A. Birchenough. 2000. “Food Safety Knowledge and Attitudes: Culture and Environment Impact on Hawkers in Malaysia. Knowledge and Attitudes Are Key Attributes of Concern in Hawker Foodhandling Practices and Outbreaks of Food Poisoning and Their Prevention.” Food Control 11 (6): 447-452.
  • Trafialek, Joanna, Eleftherios H. Drosinos, and Wojciech Kolanowski. 2017. “Evaluation of Street Food Vendors’ Hygienic Practices Using Fast Observation Questionnaire.” Food Control 80 (outubro): 350–359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.05.022.
  • Ubong, A., R. Tunung, A. Noorlis, N. Elexson, T. C. Tuan Zainazor, F. M. Ghazali, Y. Nakaguchi, M. Nishibuchi, and R. Son. 2011. “Prevalence and Detection of Vibrio Spp. and Vibrio Cholerae in Fruit”.
  • Uddin, Sayed Mohammad Nazim, Jutta Gutberlet, Anahita Ramezani, and Sayed Mohammad Nasiruddin. 2020. “Experiencing the Everyday of Waste Pickers: A Sustainable Livelihoods and Health Assessment in Dhaka City, Bangladesh.” Journal of International Development 32 (6): 833–853. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3479.
  • UNGA. 2010. “Resolution 64/292: The human rights to water and sanitation”.
  • UNICEF/WHO. 2021. The Measurement and Monitoring of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Affordability. New York: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization. https://www.unicef.org/media/97246/file/measurement%20and%20monitoring%20of%20WASH%20affordability.pdf.
  • Vollaard, A. M., S. Ali, H. A. G. H. Van Asten, I. Suhariah Ismid, S. Widjaja, L. G. Visser, Ch. Surjadi, and J. T. Van Dissel. 2004. “Risk Factors for Transmission of Foodborne Illness in Restaurants and Street Vendors in Jakarta, Indonesia.” Epidemiology and Infection 132 (5): 863–872. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268804002742.
  • WIEGO. 2019. “For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings | WIEGO”. 2019. https://www.wiego.org/blog/street-vendors-finding-water-and-toilets-isnt-just-nuisance-its-cutting-earnings.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.