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Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Table 79: Degree of agreement with the statement "The way of offering the meal influences
the leftover food”
Agreement
Afghanistan Benin Cameroon Saudi
Arabia Senegal
Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed
0%
25% 25%
29% 5% 9%
40%
Agreed
30% 55% 45%
57% 45% 55% 45%
Don’t Know
60% 10% 17%
7% 35% 19% 15%
Not agreed
10% 10% 13%
6%
5% 14%
0%
No Agreed at all
0%
0% 0%
1% 10% 3%
0%
Most the A fghanistan respondents d id n 't know w h a t to th ink abou t the statement according to
which the way of offering the meal influences the leftover food (60% ). 30% th ink there is an
effect whereas 10% didn't.
In Benin, a very big m ajority o f the surveyed people also
agreed
(55% )o r
fu lly agreed
(25% ) w ith
the statement according to which the way of offering the meal influences the leftover food. Only
10% disagreed.
A strong m ajority of the Cameroonian people
agreed
(45% )o r
fu lly agreed
(25% ) w ith the
statement according to which the way of offering the meal influences the leftover food. Only 13%
disagreed.
57% of the Saudi respondents agreed tha t the way of offering the meal influences the leftover
food and tha t 29% of them fully agreed w ith this. Only few respondents disagreed.
In Senegal, ha lf of the respondents agreed (45% ) or fully agreed (5% ) w ith the statement "the
way o f offering the meal influences the leftover food ". Once again, there is a very high rate of
participants to the survey tha t d id n 't know w h a t to th ink abou t tha t (35% ). For the rest, 5%
disagreed w ith this statement and 10% completely disagreed.
Table 45 shows tha t “The way of offering the meal influences the leftover food” according to
65% o f the Turkish participants, whereas and 16% did n o t agree w ith the statement.
All the Uzbekistan respondents th a t knew w h a t to answer
ag reed
(45% ) or
fu lly agreed
(40% )
w ith the statement "the way of offering the meal influences the leftover food ".
Table 80: Degree of agreement with the statement "Taking home any leftover food helps
minimizing food waste”
Agreement
Afghanistan Benin Cameroon Saudi
Arabia Senegal
Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed
74% 30% 28% 45% 25% 31% 35%
Agreed
26% 60% 50% 46% 25% 59% 45%
Don’t Know
0%
5% 14%
2% 40% 6%
20%
Not agreed
0%
5% 4%
5% 10% 3%
0%
No Agreed at all
0%
0% 4%
2%
0% 2%
0%
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