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    The document discusses Food Balance Sheets (FBS), which measure a country's food supply and show quantities and types of food available for consumption. FBS are composed of supply data from production, imports, and stocks, as well as utilization data from exports, feed, seed, food, and other uses. They provide per capita food supply estimates of calories, protein, and fat. FBS help analyze food security, establish malnutrition relationships, evaluate policies, and ensure adequate food supply through production and trade comparisons. However, FBS have limitations from incomplete or inaccurate basic data and no household consumption group differences. Overall, FBS are an important policymaking tool for food security analysis and decision making.

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    The document discusses Food Balance Sheets (FBS), which measure a country's food supply and show quantities and types of food available for consumption. FBS are composed of supply data from production, imports, and stocks, as well as utilization data from exports, feed, seed, food, and other uses. They provide per capita food supply estimates of calories, protein, and fat. FBS help analyze food security, establish malnutrition relationships, evaluate policies, and ensure adequate food supply through production and trade comparisons. However, FBS have limitations from incomplete or inaccurate basic data and no household consumption group differences. Overall, FBS are an important policymaking tool for food security analysis and decision making.

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    The document discusses Food Balance Sheets (FBS), which measure a country's food supply and show quantities and types of food available for consumption. FBS are composed of supply data from production, imports, and stocks, as well as utilization data from exports, feed, seed, food, and other uses. They provide per capita food supply estimates of calories, protein, and fat. FBS help analyze food security, establish malnutrition relationships, evaluate policies, and ensure adequate food supply through production and trade comparisons. However, FBS have limitations from incomplete or inaccurate basic data and no household consumption group differences. Overall, FBS are an important policymaking tool for food security analysis and decision making.

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    Food Balance Sheet: A tool for

    decision making process

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    What is FBS?
    Measure of food supply in the population
    Shows quantities and types of food available
    for human consumption
    Sources of supply and utilization
    Show trends in the food supply over time
    Pattern of the diet
    Nutritional requirements
    Food dependency
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    FBS Components
     FBS made up of 3 sets of data
    – Supply
     Production, imports and change in stocks
    – Utilization
     Exports, feed, seed, food and other use
    – Per capita food supply
     Population and nutrient content – calories,
    protein and fat

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    Remarks
    • Food balance sheets provide data on food supplies.
    • The accuracy of food balance sheets, which are in
    essence derived statistics, is of course dependent on
    the reliability of the underlying statistics of supply and
    utilization of food and of population.
    • Production statistics may not be available for all
    commodities needed.
    • Import and export data may be reasonably accurate in
    the majority of countries, but in some countries
    significant amounts of trade across national boundaries
    go unrecorded.

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    Remarks (continuation)
    • A number of adjustments on the basic data as well as
    imputations/estimations of the missing data have to be
    carried out in the preparation of the Food Balance Sheet.

    • Once estimates of the other components have been


    made, the estimate of food available for human
    consumption is usually derived as a residual according
    to the following equation:
    Food available for human consumption =
    Total food supply - Feed - Seed - Industrial uses -
    Waste.

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    Limitations
    Coverage/representativeness of the basic data
    Gaps in statistics of utilization of non-food use
    Incompleteness and inaccuracy of the basic data
    Under-reporting
    Population data
    Data from different sources
    No indication of differences exist in the diet by
    different population group

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    FBS is an instrument for policy analysis and decision-
    making.
     FBS are useful for:
    – Appraisal of food and agricultural situation in a country.

    – Estimating overall shortages and surpluses based on normative food


    needs expressed in terms of energy as well as proteins, carbohydrates
    and fats.

    – Data on per caput food supplies are an important element for projecting
    food demand, together other elements: elasticity coefficients,
    population, etc.

    – Establishing relationships between national food supplies &


    malnutrition.

    – Evaluating food and nutrition policies.

    – Basis for the policy analysis to ensure food security.


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    • The food balance sheet provide a sound basis for the
    policy analysis and decision-making needed to ensure
    food security:
    – The food balance sheet is invaluable to determine national dietary
    recommendations.

    – Food balance sheets provide data on the national average of food


    supplies.

    – In the absence of data from household surveys, food balance sheet


    data provide a good proxy for food consumption levels of the population
    as a whole.

    – The FBS provides keys message of the production, trade, consumption


    of the commodities groups selected in the country.

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    • A comparison of the quantities of food available for food
    consumption with those imported will indicate the extend to
    which a country depends upon imports( import dependency
    ratio) to feed itself.

    • Metadata of Food Balance Sheet should have a great


    importance for the users and producers.

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    • A few country examples where the Food
    Balance Sheet is used for policy makers:
    One of them in EUROSTAT is
    – Austria
    http://www.statistik.at/web_en/statistics/agriculture_and_forestry/prices_balances/supply_balance_sheets/index.html

    10
    • http://faostat.fao.org/default.aspx

    • http://faostat.fao.org/site/368/default.aspx#ancor

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    THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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