1. The average aid flows in the eight Sahelian countries was about $50 per capita in 1982. United States Agency for International Development, Sahel Development Program: Annual Report to the Congress, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982) p. 5. Kenya received $450 million of the foreign assistance in 1982, or about $25 per person.
2. For more information see H. Ruthenberg, Farming Systems in the Tropics, (Oxford University Press, 1980); and
3. Carl K. Eicher and Doyle C. Baker, Research on Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Survey, International Development Paper No. 1 (East Lansing: Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, 1982).
4. Malcolm Blackie, ‘A Time to Listen: A Perspective on Agricultural Policy in Zimbabwe’, Working Paper 5/81, Mimeo (Harare: University of Zimbabwe Department of Land Management, 1981).
5. William O. Jones, ‘Economic Man in Africa’, Food Research Institute Studies, vol. 1 (1960) pp. 107–34.