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Household-level analysis based on a comprehensive survey in three regions of Russia sheds some light on new dimensions of poverty. An important aspect of households' responses to economic stress in the transition economy is home gardening and subsistence agriculture in urban and rural areas. Subsistence agriculture plays an important role in real income and food consumption of the middle-income...