Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
In Senegal, 70% of the people surveyed reported to do the food purchases at least sometimes.
In Turkey, more than half of all respondents (51%) stated that they often do food shopping. 39%
of them reported to do always, whereas only 10% gave the answer “sometimes”.
In Uzbekistan, almost all the surveyed people reported to do the food purchases at least often.
Table 42: Place of the main food shopping
Place of the
main
food
shopping
Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Bazaar 55% 60% 2% 1% 20% 16% 60%
Supermarket 20% 20% 23% 97% 25% 84% 40%
Street sellers 25% 5% 39% 0% 55% 0% 0%
Bio-products
shops
0% 15% 35% 2% 0% 0% 0%
Afghanistan people prefer to do their food shopping at the bazaar (55%). Most of the Beninese
surveyed do their food at the bazaar (60%). Otherwise it is at the supermarket or with street
sellers. Approximately the same proportion of people surveyed in Cameroon do their food
shopping among street sellers (35%) or to bio products market places (39%). Only 23% of them
do their food shopping in supermarket. In Saudi Arabia, almost everybody stated they do their
food shopping in supermarkets (97%). Street sellers are the places were 55% of Senegalese
people go to purchase their foodstuffs. In Turkey, a clear majority of the respondents (84%)
stated that they do main food shopping from the supermarket and only 15% from Bazaar.
Uzbekistan people prefer to do their food shopping at the bazaar (60%) or the supermarket
(40%) rather than among street sellers or to bio-products shops.
Table 43: Frequency of checking the food at home before main food shopping (percentage)
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon Saudi
Arabia Senegal
Turkey Uzbekistan
Always 15% 65% 68% 27% 40% 50% 65%
Often 25% 35% 16% 52% 10% 34% 10%
Sometimes 20% 0% 9% 19% 15% 15% 10%
Rarely 15% 0% 4% 2% 25% 1% 5%
Never 25% 0% 2% 0% 10% 1% 10%
The participants to the survey are also divided as for the frequency of checking the food at home
before main food shopping in Afghanistan. The same percentage of those who check at least
often (40%) is the same as of those who check at the most rarely (40%).
In Benin, everybody checks the remaining food at home before going to do their food shopping
at least often.
A very strong majority of the people interviewed in Cameroon stated that they check the
remaining food at home before going to do their food shopping at least often (85%). Only 6%
rarely or never check before shopping.
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