Discussion
Food Balance Sheet method is employed when information regarding the availability of food is needed at :
Answer: B
The food balance sheet is used at the national level.
A food balance sheet works out the food available to a country's population over a year: production plus imports and opening stocks, minus exports, seed, feed, industrial use and wastage. Dividing what is left by the population gives the average per capita availability of each food, used to judge a country's food supply and plan policy. The FAO prepares them country by country.
It cannot show what individuals or families eat, for which diet surveys such as 24-hour recall or weighment are used, nor what an institution serves. Global figures are assembled from national sheets, but the method itself is national.
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