Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Most Turkish participants (75%] agreed w ith the statement “Using smaller buffets helps
m in im iz ing food waste”.
In Uzbekistan, 60 % of the respondents agreed or fully agreed th a t using smaller buffets w ould
help to m in im ize food waste. 30% didn't know and 10% disagreed.
Table 82: Degree of agreement with the statement "Encouraging restaurants to sell half
portions of food helps minimizing food waste”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 58% 55% 26% 38% 25% 25% 50%
Agreed 42% 45% 36% 39% 15% 46% 30%
Don’t Know 0% 17% 17% 10% 25% 20% 15%
Not agreed 0% 15% 15% 10% 15% 6% 5%
No Agreed at all 0% 6% 6% 3% 20% 3% 0%
All the households’ respondents surveyed in Afghanistan though t tha t encouraging restaurants
to sell h a lf portions of food helps m in im iz ing food waste.
All the Beninese also agreed w ith the statement "Encouraging restaurants to sell h a lf portions
of food helps m in im iz ing food waste".
In Cameroon, m ost the people tha t were surveyed agreed (36% ) or fully agreed (26% ) w ith the
statement "Encouraging restaurants to sell h a lf portions o f food helps m in im iz ing food waste"
while 15% disagreed and 6% didn't agree at all.
A lm ost all the Saudi respondents (97% ) agreed tha t encouraging restaurants to sell h a lf of food
w ou ld help to m in im ize food waste.
Senegalese surveyed for this study were very divided regarding the above-mentioned
statement. W h ile they were 40% to agree or fully agree, they were 35% to disagree or
completely disagree. 25% of them d id n 't know w h a t to answer.
The Table 48 indicates tha t m ajority of the Turkish respondents (71% ) though t tha t
“Encouraging restaurants to sell h a lf portions of food helps m in im iz ing food waste”. 20% o f all
participants stated tha t they do n o t know.
Uzbekistan households agreed or fully agreed w ith the statement " encouraging restaurants to
sell ha lf portions of food helps m in im iz ing food waste" in 80% of the cases surveyed, while 15%
didn't know and 5% disagreed w ith it.
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