COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
Table 40: Person who does supplementary food shopping
Person doing
supplementary
food shopping
Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Father 35% 0% 15% 57% 0% 30% 60%
Children 40% 45% 11% 2% 25% 15% 5%
Mother 15% 35% 66% 25% 50% 47% 30%
Janitor 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1% 0%
House assistant 0% 20% 4% 2% 25% 0% 0%
Parents 5% 0% 3% 14% 0% 7% 0%
Others 5% 0% 1% 1% 0% 14% 5%
In Afghanistan, additional food shopping nearly is mainly done by the children in 40% of the
cases surveyed, followed by the father in 35% of the cases. In Benin, children usually purchase
supplementary food shopping (45%). If not, it is the mother that takes care of it (35%), and then
the house assistant (20%). In Cameroon, it is the mother that usually purchases supplementary
food shopping (66%). If not, it is the mother that takes care of it (15%), or the children, then
(11%). In Saudi Arabia, it is the father that usually purchases supplementary food shopping
(57%). If not, it is the mother that takes care of it (25%), and then the parents (14%). In half of
the surveyed cases, it is the mother that does the supplementary food shopping in Senegal. If
not, the children or the house assistant take care of it in half of the cases (25% each). In Turkey,
supplementary food shopping is made usually by mother (47%) in the household, and then by
father (30%). In Uzbekistan, additional food shopping nearly follows the same pattern as main
food shopping, with the father doing them in 60% of the cases surveyed and the mother in 30%.
Table 41:. Frequency of food shopping
Frequency of
food
shopping
Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Always 11% 16% 38% 18% 35% 39% 50%
Often 26% 53% 35% 46% 20% 51% 40%
Sometimes 16% 32% 19% 33% 15% 10% 5%
Rarely 37% 0% 5% 4% 30% 0% 5%
Never 11% 0% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Afghanistan respondents are quite divided as for the frequency of doing food shopping. Indeed,
most respondents (53%) do the food shopping at least sometimes. However, there is also many
respondents that do their food shopping at the most sometimes (63%).
All the people surveyed in Benin and that answered the question stated that they go to purchase
food at least sometimes. A little bit more than the half of them reported to go often.
A broad majority of the people surveyed in Cameroon (73%) stated that they always or often go
to purchase food 19% do it sometimes.
46% of the people surveyed in Saudi Arabia stated that they often go to purchase food whereas
18% reported to always do food shopping and 32% do it sometimes.
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