While the HSRC appreciates the dramatic effect of social grants in reducing poverty and hunger, it noted that approximately 50 per cent of households still experienced hunger and under-nutrition. Furthermore, 50 to 80 per cent of households could not afford minimum nutrition at current prices. Rural households spend 9 to 15 per cent more than urban households for the same basic food basket. According to the HSRC 51 per cent of all severely hungry households qualified for grants but did not receive them. To this end, the HSRC recommended that a policy should be formulated to guide the urgent rolling out of grants in a more comprehensive way while expanding the household food production in the form of food gardening. It added that budgets aimed at improving food security should be ring-fenced and monitored stating that it is expensive to be poor, but more expensive to be hungry.