The Vendor Business School: Strengthening informal urban food businesses and the supply of healthy food in Quezon City, Philippines

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR Initiative on Resilient Citiesen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeResilient Citiesen_US
cg.coverage.countryPhilippinesen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PHen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierGordon Prain: 0000-0002-3275-681Xen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobsen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communitiesen_US
dc.contributor.authorRoa, Julietaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBertuso, Armaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRicarte, Phoebeen_US
dc.contributor.authorPrain, Gordonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-20T22:25:26Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-12-20T22:25:26Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168210en_US
dc.titleThe Vendor Business School: Strengthening informal urban food businesses and the supply of healthy food in Quezon City, Philippinesen_US
dcterms.abstractThis policy brief highlights the opportunity to increase efficiency and safety of city food systems by developing the capacity of informal sector food vendors in the Philippines, a country with about 54 percent of the people living in urban and peri-urban areas (PSA 2022). It is based on evidence generated from a study in Quezon City, the largest city of Metro Manila with a population of almost 3 million people. The city’s 13,000 or more small vegetable vendors make up one of the biggest components of food marketing (EH Velasco II, QC-FSTF, September 2024, pers. comm.), which is crucial in achieving food and nutrition security targets. The CGIAR Resilient Cities Initiative (RCI) designed and developed the Vendor Business School (VBS) as a means to build the capabilities and skills of vegetable vendors and similarly equip them with an entrepreneurial mindset that can improve their own livelihood as well as contribute to a safer and more effective food marketing system. Piloting VBS in Quezon City yielded positive results pointing to the need to expand the approach not only in Quezon City but also in other cities in the Philippines.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRoa, J., Bertuso, A., Ricarte, P., Prain,G. 2024. The Vendor Business School: Strengthening informal urban food businesses and the supply of healthy food in Quezon City, Philippines.Policy Brief. CGIAR Initiative on Resilient Citiesen_US
dcterms.issued2024-12en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherCGIAR System Organizationen_US
dcterms.subjectinformal sectoren_US
dcterms.subjecturban areasen_US
dcterms.subjecthealthy dietsen_US
dcterms.typeBriefen_US

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