According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2.5 billion people eat street food worldwide per day. Due to this fact, the organization has put a lot of time into developing guidelines for policy and planning to accommodate these vendors worldwide. One of these documents is the Guideline Action Plan for Street Foods.
The plan calls for recognition that the informal street sector has a legitimate place in a city and that the city's infrastructure and facilities should be managed and developed so that street food and the orderly life of the can coexist and even support each other. One of my main goals is to promote cities to provide better infrastructure for temporary food services so it's great that the FAO has the same goals and has set up a framework to achieve that.
Some of the main guidelines from the report were:
-Ensure that street vendors be issued operation licenses, which may specify the food, location and time frame of operations
-Update national food laws, as street food may not be addressed as it is a newer phenomenon
-Utilize municipal law to create localized solutions
-Train food vendors and inspectors, and educating customers
-Provide basic necessities if possible such as water, waste disposal, space and electricity
-Use pilot projects on a local level before implementing it nationally
Exerts from Perspectives and Guidelines on Food Legislation: With a New Model Food Law
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