COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
Table 2: Livestock products in years
Year
Meat
(Tonnes)
Milk
(Tonnes)
Chicken meat
(Tonnes)
Hen eggs
(1,000)
Honey
(Tonnes)
2001 435,778 9,495,550 614,745 10,575,046 60,190
2002 420,595 8,408,568 696,187 11,554,910 74,554
2003 366,962 10,611,011 872,419 12,666,782 69,540
2004 447,154 10,679,406 876,774 11,055,557 7 929
2005 409,423 11,107,897 936,697 12,052,455 82,336
2006 438,530 11,952,099 917,659 11,733,572 83,842
2007 575,622 12,329,789 1,068,454 12,724,959 73,935
2008 482,458 12,243,040 1,087,682 13,190,696 81,364
2009 412,621 12,542,186 1,293,315 13,832,726 82,003
2010 780,718 13,543,674 1,444,059 11,840,396 81,115
2011 776,915 15,056,211 1,613,309 12,954,686 94,245
2012 915,844 17,401,262 1,723,919 14,910,774 89,162
2013 996,125 18,223,712 1,758,363 16,496,751 94,694
2014 1,008,272 18,630,859 894,669 17,145,389 103,525
2015 1,149,262 18,654,682 1,909,276 16,726,332 107,665
Source: TURKSTAT (2016)
Turkey is inherently advantageous in seafood production thanks to its long coastline. Seafood
production, especially of fish, contributes to country’s economy a lot by providing employment
from production to marketing. In terms of production quantity, the top three sea products are
anchovies, sprats and sardines, but their production values differ from each other (FAO, 2013].
Also, it should be noted that the consumption of seafood is not much common for various
reasons including socio-economic ones.
Population
The increasing urbanization of Turkey has brought about a severe decline in country’s rural
population. Moreover, improved economic conditions and restructuring promoted the shift of
labour from agriculture to manufacturing and service sectors. Consequently, the number of
people living in urban areas has become more than the number of people in rural areas since
1985 (European Commission, 2013].
In 2007, 32.5% of the total population were living in the rural parts but this percentage
decreased to 22.7% in 2012 (Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Livestock, 2014]. Although it was
possible to see an increase in the total population by the amount of 7.1%, rural population have
decreased by 8.8% (Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Livestock, 2014]. This outcome proves that
there is still migration from rural to urban, and it foreseen that this migration will continue in
the coming years. Among the major factors driving migration, there are demographic structure,
structure of employment and labour force and the opportunities to reach social and physical
infrastructure services (Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Livestock, 2014].
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