ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Food Policy. Food Policy is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier that examines the economic, social, political, and institutional dimensions of food and agricultural systems worldwide. Its research spans food security, nutrition, agricultural economics, trade, sustainability, and rural development, publishing empirical studies and policy analyses that inform decisions about food production, distribution, access, and public health.
A scoping review of 327 studies on food vendors in 64 countries found definitions split by licensing, location and stall type, each likely to steer policy differently, while vendors’ own health, bribery and safety stayed thinly studied.