Paper short abstract:

Mayotte island is the southern most of the Comoros. Urbanization changed food market organization. From road market to official ones in secured places in main towns to informal ones at the country side and the illegal ones closed to downtown places.

Paper long abstract:

Mayotte population had increased from last decade but also moved to main town Mamoudzou and its suburbs. Food markets have been reorganized. Administration built new places as covered marked to include food market in national health security policy. But road markets still remain in the countryside, mainly at important crossroads north and south of the island. Women are still the seller in vegetables and fruits markets. Illegal markets also still remain closed to the local marked and navy station. But selling is not a women activity as fish is concerned. A legal cooperative must sell fishs fromm the lagoon but every day men are selling fishs of the day closed to the fishing port where cars can stop and buy on way back home at night. Some of them are also walking through villages main streets as a new form of door-to-door selling for they fishs. Mayotte food markets seem to be between to systems. Moreover people use all forms of market as easyness of everyday life, despite of small different habits betwwen Mayotte people, underground population and Mzungu from France or la Réunion.