COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the 01CMember Countries
Chapter 4 explores the motives for consumers te reduce feed waste at heme and in feed service
establishments. This is set within the critical global issue of feed security, which is high on the
agenda of many OIC Member Countries, especially as many rely on feed imports. In addition,
many OIC Member Countries have insufficient feed production capacity to meet domestic
demand. Reducing feed waste represents one way te solve the feed crisis. It is within this context
that this study tables the adoption of sustainable feed systems te strengthen and make OIC
Member Country feed chains mere resilient te fluctuations in supply and cost.
The legal, social and cultural context and measures te reduce feed waste in the OIC Member
Countries is analyzed in Chapter 5. A review of legislation across member countries reveals that
very few have legislation that focuses on feed waste. However, many do have general waste
management or environmental legislation which dees or could encompass feed waste
reduction, but this varies across countries, from non-existent te well-established. The most
notable examples include:
• Turkey’s ‘Circular on Bread Waste Prevention’, and Egypt's ‘Bread Subsidy
Smartcard’ to reduce bread waste.
• Indonesia’s ‘Law on heed’ which focuses on self-sufficiency but sees optimal
consumption of feed as a solution te self-sufficiency.
• Pakistan’s ‘One-dish’ law to reduce excessive food consumption and waste generated
at weddings.
• Qatar’s ground-breaking National Dietary Guidelines which integrate principles of
feed sustainability (including waste] and nutrition.
Given the importance of date labels as a major contributing factor te feed waste at heme, it is
within the legislative context that they are explored further. A review of date label legislation
adopted by OIC Member Countries suggests that these that do specify content for feed labels do
so for feed imported into the country. However, little information was found on feed date labels
and shelf-life in OIC Member Countries. Examples, such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia do refer te
the inclusion of use-by and best-before dates on labels, with Saudi Arabia specifically requesting
labels needing te minimize confusion for consumers.
The survey results and case studies are discussed in Chapter 6, and cover the extent and main
causes for feed waste in the surveyed countries: Afghanistan, Benin, Cameroon (case study],
Saudi Arabia (case study], Senegal, Turkey (case study] and Uzbekistan. A summary of the
findings provides insights into the variations that exist within seme of the OIC Member
Countries. Whilst net able te use the results as a reflection of total feed wasted for all OIC
Member Countries, the results do provide a good indication of consumer practices in the
Member Countries. Table 2 provides a summary of estimated household feed waste per
surveyed country.
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