Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Table 105: Agreement with the statement "I care about food poisoning so try to be careful
about food storage”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 0% 37% 28% 33% 24% 95% 75%
Agreed 80% 53% 55% 62% 29% 4% 25%
Don’t Know 15% 0% 6% 1% 29% 1% 0%
Not Agreed 5% 11% 7% 2% 14% 0% 0%
Not agreed at all 0% 0% 3% 1% 5% 0% 0%
Am ong the food businesses surveyed in Afghanistan, a vast majority to care abou t food
poisoning and therefore try to be careful abou t food storage (80% ) while 5% reported no t to be
careful. In Benin, a clear m ajority of the food business places surveyed (89% ) revealed tha t they
care abou t food poisoning and thus try to be careful abou t food storage. Only 11% don 't care
abou t food poisoning. A big m ajority of the food business places surveyed in Cameroon (83% )
revealed tha t they care abou t food poisoning and thus try to be careful abou t food storage. 7%
disagreed and 3% d id no t agree a t all w ith this.
A lm ost all the Saudi food business places surveyed (96% ) revealed tha t they care abou t food
poisoning and thus try to be careful abou t food storage. Only 3% of them d id n o t agree.
Senegalese food businesses are quite divided as for responding to the statement "I care about
food poisoning so I try to be careful abou t food storage" 24% fully agreed, 29% agreed, 29%
didn't know, 14% did not agree and 5% did not agree at all. Even though, there is a m ajority tha t
agrees (52% ) against a m ino rity tha t disagrees (19% ) w hen answers are aggregated.
As Table 71 indicates, alm ost all interviewed business places 99% revealed tha t they care abou t
food poisoning and thus try to be careful abou t food storage. All the food businesses also
reported to care abou t food poisoning and therefore try to be careful abou t food storage (w ith
75% tha tfully agreed and 25% tha t agreed) in Uzbekistan.
Table 106: Agreement with the statement "I believe that use of food waste in a useful way is
an important part of my work”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 0% 32% 25% 33% 14% 51% 50%
Agreed 0% 53% 35% 61% 57% 10% 25%
Don’t Know 0% 11% 19% 2% 10% 1% 15%
Not Agreed 10% 5% 14% 4% 19% 27% 5%
Not agreed at all 90% 0% 7% 0% 0% 11% 5%
None o f the Afghanistan hospitality places believe tha t m anaging the food wastage is an
im po rtan t p a rt of their job. 84% of the hospitality places in Benin believed tha t the use o f food
waste in a useful way is an im po rtan t pa rt of their wo rk whereas 11% d id n 't know and 5%
disagreed. 61% of the Cameroonian hospitality places believed the tha t use of food waste in a
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