: Although poverty lines have been constructed on the basis of an income threshold,
this article defines a poverty line on the basis of an asset threshold using the consensual
approach as postulated by Mack and Lansley. In this article, an asset threshold is defined using
this approach, which is a European method in an African rural setting. The determination of
the asset threshold—the Minimally Adequate Asset Level, which is context-sensitive, fixed
bundle of assets, is the major contribution of this article. This asset poverty line opens up
possibilities for calculating asset-based FGT measures as well as an asset-gini-coefficient. The
article also shows that location matters in the perception of poverty as a consequence of
differing lifestyles.