Food Supply Chains in the Urban Economy: A Case Study of Street Food Vendors in Bangkok Metropolis
Keywords:
Street food vending, Street food vendors, Informal economy, Food supply chains, Urban economyAbstract
Street food vendors are a significant component of the informal economy. The article analyzes food supply chain activities in consideration of the dependence on small producers, corporate firms, wholesalers, market vendors, street food vendors, and consumers. The article presents findings from a survey questionnaire sent to 150 street food sellers in the Phra Nakhon, Bang Rak, and Bang Kapi districts. This study explores street food vendors and market vendors through a case study interview. The argument for street food vending's necessity is that a portion of purchases ingredients from market vendors and small producers. Similarly, the source of street food vending is crucial for consumers and indirectly enhances the formal economy in urban areas.
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Bangasser, Paul E. 2000. “The ILO and the informal sector: an institutional history”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3oyJeLx
Banks, Nicola, Melanie Lombard, and Diana Mitlin. 2020. “Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis”. The Journal of Development Studies 56(2): 223-238.
Bonner, Chris, and Françoise Carré. 2013. “Global Networking: Informal Workers Build Solidarity, Power, and Representation through Networks and Alliances”. WIEGO working paper. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3APPZf3
Carré, Françoise, Pat Horn, and Chris Bonner. 2018. “Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place”. WIEGO working paper. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3AWd142
Carrillo-Rodriguez, Jorge, and Sarah Orleans Reed. 2018. “If Street Food Disappears – Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok”. WIEGO resource document No. 9. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3kTuKnd
Chen, Martha Alter. 2012. “The informal economy: Definitions, theories and policies. WIEGO working paper”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3unKm5g
Crush, Jonathan, and Bruce Frayne. 2011. “Supermarket expansion and the informal food economy in Southern African cities: implications for urban food security”. Journal of Southern African Studies 37(4): 781-807.
d’Alençon, Paola Alfaro, et al. 2018. “Interrogating informality: Conceptualisations, practices and policies in the light of the New Urban Agenda”. Habitat International 75: 59-66.
Ghani, Syed Ejaz, and Ravi Kanbur. 2012. “Urbanization and (In)Formalization”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/2ZIGNvo
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Ostrom. 2006. “Beyond formality and informality. Linking the formal and informal economy: Concepts and policies”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3uqC7FD
Haid, Christian G., and Hanna Hilbrandt. 2019. “Urban informality and the state: geographical translations and conceptual alliances”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 43(3): 551-562.
Harriss-White, Barbara. 2020. “India’s Informal Economy: Past, Present and Future”. In The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future, edited by Martha Alter Chen, 38-44. London: Routledge.
Hart, Keith. 1985. The Informal Economy. Cambridge Anthropology, 10(2), 54-58.
International Labour Office. 1972. “Activities of the ILO, 1971: Report of the director-general (part 2)”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/39Tf5xP
International Labour Office. 1984. “Urbanisation, informal sector and employment: A progress report on research, advisory services and technical cooperation”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3F6gr6A
International Labour Office. 2002. “Decent work and the informal economy (Sixth item on the agenda)”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3mfl99F
Kanbur, Ravi. 2009. “Conceptualising informality: regulation and enforcement”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3D1R6c2
Kanbur, Ravi. 2011. “Avoiding informality traps”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3F637iM
Kanbur, Ravi. 2014. “Mindsets, Trends, and the Informal Economy”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3kUAzk6
Lutzoni, Laura. 2016. “In-formalised urban space design. Rethinking the relationship between formal and informal”. City, Territory and Architecture 3(20): https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-016-0046-9
Mabogunje, Akin L. 1990. “Urban planning and the post-colonial state in Africa: A Research Overview 1”. African Studies Review 33(2): 121-203.
Maloney, William F., and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. 2007. “The informal sector: What is it, Why do we care, and How do wo measure it?”. In Informality: exit and exclusion, edited by Perry, Guillermo E, et al., 21-41. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3uqCCQ1
Marx, Colin, and Emily Kelling. 2019. “Knowing urban informalities”. Urban Studies, 56(3), 494-509.
McFarlane, Colin, and Michael Waibel. 2012. “Introduction: The informal-formal divide in context”. In Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal, edited by McFarlane, Colin, and Michael Waibel, 15-26. London: Routledge.
Nickanor, Ndeyapo, and Lawrence Kazembe. 2017. “The Supermarket revolution and food security in Namibia (No. 26)”. Southern African Migration Programme. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/2Y3TmB7
Nielsen, William Iver, et al. 2020. “Re-thinking the Approach to Informal Businesses”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/2Y4twwP
Orleans Reed, Sarah, et al. 2017. “Informal Workers in Bangkok, Thailand: Scan of Four Occupational Sectors”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3ig9m9F
Rogan, Michael, et al. 2017. “Informal employment in the global south: Globalization, production relations, and “precarity””. In Precarious Work, edited by Kalleberg, Arne L., and Steven P. Vallas, 307-333. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Schindler, Seth. 2017. “Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality: Interactions between Delhi’s middle class and the informal service sector”. Current Sociology 65(2): 248-259.
Senghaas-Knobloch, Eva. 1977. Informal sector and peripheral capitalism: a critique of a prevailing concept of development. Manpower and Unemployment Research 10(2): 3-24.
Sethuraman, Salem V. 1976. The urban informal sector: Concept, measurement and policy. International Labour Review 114(1): 69-81.
Singer, Hans Wolfgang. 1970. “Dualism revisited: a new approach to the problems of the dual society in developing countries”. The Journal of Development Studies 7(1): 60-75.
Singer, Hans Wolfgang. 1972. “The technology gap and the developing countries”. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 3(1-4), 119-123.
Sinha, Anushree, and Ravi Kanbur. 2012. “Informality: Concepts, facts and models”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3mdGIr0
Tokman, Victor E. 1977. “An exploration into the nature of informal-formal sector interrelationships”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3unMBpp
Varley, Ann. 2013. “Postcolonialising informality?”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31(1), 4-22.
Young, Graeme, and Jonathan Crush. 2019. “Governing the informal food sector in cities of the Global South (discussion paper no. 30)”. Accessed 30, July 2021. https://bit.ly/3kRKp6g
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Nirathron, Narumol, Jorge Carrillo Rodriguez, and Kritsada Theerakosonphong. 2021. “Food Supply Chains in the Urban Economy: A Case Study of Street Food Vendors in Bangkok Metropolis”. Social Sciences Academic Journal, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University 33 (2):102-35. https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jss/article/view/254696.
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