Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
In Turkey, 42% stated that they sometimes purchase food items that they were not anticipated
to buy. 36% of them said they rarely buy those items. However, only 1% of respondents reported
that they always buy food items that are not in their lists.
All the Uzbekistan people purchase food items that they were not anticipated to buy at least
sometimes (100%).
Table 48: Frequency of ordering takeaways or eating at restaurants instead of cooking a meal
indoors
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Always 0% 0% 8% 4% 0% 1% 5%
Often 0% 0% 12% 11% 26% 5% 10%
Sometimes 15% 20% 20% 33% 21% 26% 30%
Rarely 35% 60% 35% 50% 21% 35% 30%
Never 50% 20% 25% 3% 32% 33% 25%
The clear majority of the respondents in Afghanistan rarely (35%) or never (50%) order
takeaways or go eating to the restaurant. They were only 15% to report to sometimes go order
some food or go to the restaurant and nobody report to do it often or always.
Most of the Beninese respondents rarely (60%) order takeaways or go eating at restaurants
instead of cooking at home. 20% sometimes do so but none of them reported to often or always
order takeaways or go eating at restaurants.
Cameroonian interviewed are not so used to order takeaways or to go eating at restaurants
instead of cooking at home. 50% rarely or never do so and 70% do so sometimes or less
frequently.
Half of the Saudi respondents rarely order some food or go to the restaurant instead of cooking
a meal at home. They are only 3% to state that they never go to the restaurant or never order
something instead of cooking at home. 32% state that they sometimes go to the restaurant or
order something from outside.
In Senegal, 74% of the respondents’ order takeaways or go eating at restaurants instead of
cooking at home sometimes at the most.
It can be comprehended from this table that a very small percent of all the Turkish respondents
(1%) always and 5% of them often order takeaways or eat at restaurants instead of cooking a
meal at indoors. 35% stated that they rarely order takeaways or eat at restaurants, and 32%
said that they never eat from outside.
Most of the people surveyed in Uzbekistan do not order takeaways or go eating to the restaurant
very often. 85% of them do it sometimes at the most.
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