COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
In Cameroon, most of the respondents report that they sometimes, or more frequently, stick to
buying just the items on their list that they prepared before going to food shopping. Only around
15,15% of them rarely or never stick to their shopping list.
In Saudi Arabia, most of the respondents report that they sometimes , or more frequently, stick
to buying just the items on their list that they prepared before going to food shopping. Only
around 16% of them rarely or never stick to their shopping list.
Senegalese respondents are quite divided as for sticking to buying the items the planned to buy
with their shopping list. 30% reported to do so sometimes, 25% rarely and 20% often. They are
15% to never stick to their shopping list and 10% to always stick to it.
This table indicates that nearly half of the surveyed Turkish participants (46%) often stick to
buying just the items on their list that they prepared before going to food shopping. On the
contrary, small percentages of them said that they never (1%) or rarely (4%) stick to their
shopping lists.
Most of the Uzbekistan respondents stick to buying the items they planned to buy with their
shopping list. 60% report to do it often or more and 75% at least sometimes.
Table 47: Frequency of purchasing food items that the respondents were not anticipated to buy
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Always 5% 0% 12% 5% 0% 1% 45%
Often 5% 30% 20% 13% 25% 12% 20%
Sometimes 30% 40% 44% 33% 20% 42% 35%
Rarely 45% 30% 19% 47% 35% 36% 0%
Never 15% 0% 5% 1% 20% 9% 0%
Many the Afghanistan respondents rarely (45%) or never (15%) purchase food items that they
were not anticipated to buy at least sometimes (100%).
People in Benin are quite divided as for the frequency to buy food items that they were not
anticipated to. 30% stated to often do so, 40% sometimes do so and 30% rarely do so.
The clear majority of people surveyed in Cameroon (66%) stated that they purchase food items
that they were not anticipated to buy at least sometimes. Almost a quarter of them (24%) rarely
or never do so.
The clear majority of people surveyed in Saudi Arabia stated that they rarely (in 47% of the
cases) or sometimes (33% of the cases) purchase food items that they were not anticipated to
buy.
People in Senegal are quite divided as for the frequency to buy food items that they were not
anticipated to. 35% stated to rarely do so, 25% sometimes do so and 20% stated or to sometimes
or to never buy food items that they were not anticipated to buy.
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