Negotiating livelihoods beyond Beijing
The burden of women food vendors in the informal economy of Limbe, Cameroon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4388434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles C Fonchingong, Charles Fonchingong (0000-0003-0169-5660, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 184 |
| Pages | 243-253 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.00548.x |
| OpenAlex | W2149657531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 19 |
As a response to the trappings of globalisation and the commoditisation of the sphere of production, women continue to play a crucial role in securing livelihoods by guaranteeing access to food in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas. Based on a survey of food vendors, this paper evaluates women's input through informal earnings, the coping strategies devised to stave off poverty occasioned by the economic meltdown, the travails of meeting the daily demands of family survival and the influence on gender relations.The profile of vendors indicate that most are assuming greater headship of households, they straddle between the home and their business premises with attendant effects on time, mobility, health and labour. Amid these hurdles, the vendors are barely able to address the basic needs of their families. However, they are becoming economically empowered as they exercise greater leverage in intra-household resource allocation. These minimal gains are offset by a heavy tax burden, the poor regulatory framework for informal sector activities and the incessant crackdown by municipal authorities. Reconciling the trade-off between income generation and care-giving hinges on drawing additional labour from the family-especially the girl child and some supportive family relations
Beijing · Business · Earnings · Economic growth · Economic mobility · Economics · Geography · Informal sector · Leverage (statistics) · Livelihood · Negotiation · Political science · Poverty · Straddle · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Informality in food environments
Women and Economic Production
Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts
The discursive construction of a ‘model Cameroonian woman’ within the Cameroonian Parliament
Commodities and Competition
A new generation of Bangkok Street vendors
To Formalize or Not to Formalize
Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector
Women's status and global food security
Contextualising workers’ health and safety in urban settings
Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre
Informal Traders and the Battlegrounds of Revanchism in Cusco, Peru
Urban and Peri-urban Cultivation in Northern Mozambique
Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals
Food vending
Can Anyone Hear Us
Structural adjustment, women, and agriculture in Cameroon
Household food security and child nutrition
Gender planning in the third world
Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor
The implications of female household headship for food consumption and nutritional status in the Dominican Republic
Rescuing gender from the poverty trap
Expenditure behavior and children's welfare
African Market Women and Economic Power
Bargaining'' and Gender Relations
Empowerment and survival
Women's Role in Maintaining Households
Women, Wages and Intra-household Power Relations in Urban Bangladesh
African Market Women and Economic Power
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |