Specifically, we define a child as suffering of hunger when her/his daily calorie intake is below 2450 kcal (or 2283 kcal for Burkina Faso). As for hunger rates in the child population, nutritional tables specific to each country are used to derive the caloric contribution of the principal food items and, based on the estimated individual food consumptions (household food consumption per adult equivalent), to calculate individual calorie intake for the base year and under the different scenarios simulated in our analysis. As for the monetary poverty analysis, a unitary model assigning part of the household consumption to each individual proportional to their respective equivalence scales (based on age and sex) is used. Calorie intakes are affected across the different scenarios by changes in household income (which are obtained as described before) and by changes in food prices, as they modify the quantities of food consumed in the Cobb-Douglas formulation.