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Street Food Project - Calcutta

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In Calcutta, street vendors are a major provider of food for the city's poor. An individual's daily nutritional needs can be met with just a few rupees. However, due to unsanitary conditions and poor food handling practices, there has traditionally been high rates of food contamination and outbreaks of foodborne diseases. With help from partners, the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health implemented a number of training programs for street vendors in order that sanitary conditions and healthfulness of the food might be improved on a large scale. The AIIHPH also examined ways in which a holistic approach, that included not only health but traffic and environmental safety, could be taken in the city.
Communication Strategies

The training programmes included open air lectures, exhibitions, posters, street plays, video presentations and discussions.
Development Issues

Health and Nutrition, Economic Development.
Key Points

In order to improve street food and the conditions in which it is prepared, the All Indian Institute of Hygiene and Public Health initiated a project to research and evaluate the issue and implement policies to improve sanitation of street vendors.
Partners



United Nations Food and Agriculture (FOA) as well as numbers of Indian governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Sources

Click here for the PDF version of "Street Food Project in Calcutta" by Professor Indira Chakravarty.