Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Figure 10: Food waste sales, by region
Source: Adaptedfrom SIK (2013)
Table 7: Food waste per person per year, by region
Region (Kgs) % of total % of total
Europe 95 34% 52%
North America &Oceania 115 39% 61%
Industrialized Asia 73 31% 46%
Sub-Saharan Africa 6 4% 5%
North Africa, Central &Western Asia 33 15% 34%
South & Southeast Asia 11 9% 13%
Latin America 25 11% 28%
Source: Adaptedfrom FAO (2011), Lipinski (2013) and SIK (2013)
From a socio-economic perspective, recent evidence from Turkey, South Africa and Australia
suggests that lower-income groups waste less food than higher income groups in terms of
weight, calories and spending (Table 8) (Cuesta, 2014). This clearly illustrates that higher-
income households are responsible for generating the most household food waste (by volume
and cost). Table 8 illustrates this variance in relation to other regional data for Sub-Saharan
Africa, South and South-Eastern Asia, and Europe and North America.
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