Giving Compass' Take:

• The Atlantic takes a look at two areas where the technology industry is thriving however it is also threatening the livelihood of many street vendors who rely on their customer's business.

• How can tech companies embrace local food vendors? How can we make efforts to save our local food industries?

• Learn how we can save food trucks and vendors and address our hunger crisis as well. 

Rosa Leon works as a tamale vendor in San Jose, California. But she has to do so on the sly, selling only at night. She considered obtaining permits, but she was daunted by the process. Now, the urban farm-and-food nonprofit Veggielution is helping her apply for them.

In Bangalore, India, Sukumar N. T. sells gobi Manchurian, a fiery Indian-Chinese dish, from a mobile cart. He’s been on this corner, not far from the Rajajinagar IT Park, for seven years, after moving there from a small city about 100 miles west. Every day, the police ask him for 40 to 50 rupees (less than a U.S. dollar), he told me, even though he’s licensed to vend there. “It’s compulsory,” he shrugged. “I don’t want any trouble in the future.”

Read the full article on displaced street vendors by Christine Ro at The Atlantic.