Informal food vendors: The invisible backbone of the world's food system

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Walk through almost any city or town in a low-income or middle-income country and you'll pass them: the woman selling deep-fried fish from a cart, the mobile vendor with a bicycle full of vegetables, the kiosk operator who's the only source of a hot…

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:40:01 UTC.

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