Food Balance Sheet Analysis
Food Balance Sheet (FBS) analysis is FAO's framework for accounting for a country's food supply, codified in the 2001 handbook Food Balance Sheets: A Handbook and updated in FAO's 2017 methodology. For each commodity, the FBS balances the total supply available during a reference period — domestic production plus imports adjusted for stock changes — against all utilization: exports, animal feed, seed, processing, waste, other non-food uses, and finally the quantity available for human consumption. Dividing food available by population gives per capita supply, which is then converted, using food-composition factors, into Dietary Energy Supply (kilocalories per person per day) and protein and fat supply. The FBS underpins national-level food-security indicators, including the prevalence of undernourishment.
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- FAO (2001). Food Balance Sheets: A Handbook. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. · URL
- FAO (2017). FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets: Methodology and New Approach. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division. · URL
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