The families of many underweight children are suffering more from a lack of health care and nutritional advice than from beingtoopoor to be able to buy food, says Mr Paes de Barros.
Ahead of its publication this morning, the Institute for Fiscal Studies assessment of the prospects for Scottish independence was being dismissed as coming from the "too poor, too stupid school of scaremongering".
They feel that too much attention is being given to the needs of wealthy new residents and too little to the homeless and working poor who have been living there for years.
But allotment holders who have set up a Facebook campaign opposing the plans said the alternative site being offered was too remote, too far away, too close to the M25 and has poor soil.