This paper proposes a new way of establishing a food poverty line taking into account regional food preferences and prices. It uses this poverty line to derive a food poverty measure which satisfies the desirable fundamental properties of such measures and has the additional advantage of being...

The authors applied household production theory to the Ghana Household Budget Survey data to identify the main determinants of food poverty (defined as inadequate calorie consumption), and to determine the net contribution of children to household food availability. The Budget Survey was carried...