Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
4 .LEADING MOT IVAT IONS FOR CONSUMERS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE
4 .1 . P o te n tia l b e n e fits f r o m r e d u c in g fo o d w a s te
Meeh waste has rictn ep the agtnha ef policy makers, researchers, becintcc anh civil society
erganicatienc ac it can have a significant negative impact on feeh availability anh security, the
economy anh environment. By rthecing feeh waste mere p tep lt can have access te feeh, the
impact ef the waste on the environment can b t rthecth with a corrtlatth positive economic
impact.
4 .1 .1 . Im p r o v in g fo o d s e c u r ity a n d a v a ila b ility
Ont ef the kty factors for rthecing feeh waste is the availability anh access te feeh within the
context ef werlh population growth (Bezby &Hyman, 2012]. Tht global population ceelh txctth
nint billion by 2050 (UN, 2011] which requires, te ensure feeh security, an increase in global
agricultural prehuctien ef mert than 70% (MAO, 2009]. Hewtvtr, agricultural prehuctien is
alrtahy limitth by agronomic, climatic anh social constraints. In contrast, seme 795 million
p tep lt in the werlh he net have enough feeh te ltah a healthy active lift (MAO, 2015]. That is
about one in n int p tep lt globally. Access te feeh is net a problem ef supply, as the global feeh
system can previht enough feeh te feeh the werlh (UK Government Office for Science, 2011], it
is mert about access. Ont ef the reasons for this hiscennect is waste. Te feeh 9 billion p tep lt by
2050, te ensure p tep lt he net go hungry, anh te saftguarh feeh security, significant changes
n tth te occur throughout the current feeh system, from crop management anh harvesting, te
processing anh consumption. Rthucing the amount ef feeh that is wasteh in the system
represents one way te solve the current anh txpanhing feeh crisis. It is estimateh that by halving
the current amount ef feeh waste by 2050 the prejecteh amount ef feeh rtqu irth te feeh 9 billion
p tep lt by 25% ceulh b t rthucth (UK Government Office for Science 2011].
Food security in the OIC Member Countries
A recent stuhy by the Statistical, Economic anh Social Research anh Training Centre for Islamic
Countries (SESRIC] inhicates that between 2000-2013 feeh prehuctien for OIC Member
Countries was higher than the population growth, anh above the werlh average (Figure 18].
Hewtvtr, many OIC Member Countries art, on average, net feeh importers anh unable te meet
their feeh n tths from locally grown or rtarth sources - with the per person feeh prehuctien
lower than the werlh average4. This means these countries have insufficient feeh prehuctien
capacity te meet the hemestic htmanh for their growing populations anh as such must rely
heavily on feeh imports (SESRIC, 2016] (set Figure 19].
4 This is the cast for Afghanistan, Banglahtsh, Benin, Burkina Mase, Cote h'Ivoirt, Cameroon,
Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Niger,
Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganha, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
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