Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Table 111: Agreement with the statement "Open buffet type of services creates high volume
of food waste”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 90% 32% 25% 34% 24% 78% 35%
Agreed 10% 53% 35% 60% 10% 6% 12%
Don’t Know 0% 16% 25% 1% 43% 0% 18%
Not Agreed 0% 0% 13% 3% 14% 12% 18%
Not agreed at all 0% 0% 3% 2% 10% 4% 18%
Table 77 indicates tha t all the A fghanistan food business participants agree tha t open buffet type
of services create high volume of food waste. In Benin, 53% agreed w ith tha t open buffet type
services created high volume o f food waste and tha t 32% fu lly agreed. Nobody disagreed w ith
this statement. In Cameroon, 35% agreed w ith tha t open buffet type services created high
volum e o f food waste. It is interesting to note that, if 25% o f them fully agreed w ith this
statement, the same rate d id n 't know w h a t to answer. In total, 16% disagreed w ith this
statement. 93% of the Saudi food business places agreed w ith th a t open buffet type services
created high volum e of food waste, w hen only 5% did n o t agree w ith this premise.
In Senegal, a very high percentage of the surveyed food hospitality places d id no t know how to
position vis-à-vis the statement according to which open-buffet type of services create high
volumes of food waste. They were 24% to fu lly agreed and 10% to a g ree w ith this whereas they
were 14% to disagree and 10% n o t to a gree a t all. In Turkey, 84% agreed w ith tha t open buffet
type services created high volum e of food waste, whereas 16% d id no t agree w ith this premise.
In Uzbekistan, the participants were also very divided on the question they were asked. There
is no m ajo r position tha t emerges. The trend is tha t there are more hospitality food places that
th in k th a t open buffet type of services creates high volum e of food waste (47% ) than those who
th in k tha t it is n o t the case (35% ).
Table 112: Agreement with the statement "I believe it would be useful if I get some training
or briefing on how to minimize and manage food waste”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 70% 16% 52% 26% 19% 96% 35%
Agreed 30% 74% 24% 71% 57% 3% 30%
Don’t Know 0% 0% 14% 0% 19% 0% 15%
Not Agreed 0% 11% 6% 0% 5% 1% 5%
Not agreed at all 0% 0% 5% 2% 0% 0% 15%
All the Afghanistan hospitality places also believe tha t they could m in im ize and better manage
their food waste if they got a tra in ing or a briefing. A clear majority o f the Beninese business
places (89% ) believed th a t it w ou ld be useful if they get some tra in ing or briefing on how to
m in im ize and manage food waste. Only 11% don 't th ink such trainings w ou ld be useful. A vast
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