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Notes
1. Keith Griffin (1979) has calculated rates of growth forthetwo decades 1955-65 and 1965-75.
These are presented in Tables 1.1 and 1.2.
2. See the statistical series reconstructed by Paul Bairoch (1975) on pp. 16-19 and in Thbles
4and 5.
3. See 'Special Feature; FAO Indices of Food and Agricultural Production', in: Monthly
Bulletin of Statistics, Vol. 2 (November 1979), No. 11, Thble 1, pp. 12113. From the yearly
indices of agricultural production per head published by FAO we quote the following
overview:
1970
1971
1972 1973 1974
World
Africa
Latin America
Asia
100
100
100
101
101
100
99
100
99 102 102
99 93 97
98 97 103
98 101 101
1975
1976
1977 1978 1979
World
Africa
Latin America
Asia
103
94
103
104
103
93
104
104
104 106 105
90 90 88
106 106 107
104 106 105
4. These index numbers, which were ingeniously reconstructed by Bairoch (1975), express
agricultural production per capita in 'direct' calories, i.e. in those 'calories which have
not undergone a transformation in thecourseoflivestock rearing' (see note 15, p. 214).
The exclusion of women from the population employed in agriculture is justified by the
fact that the criteria used in different countries to determine their employment vary too
widely (p. 22).
5. Ibidem: Table 8. All indexes are based on five-year averages. The figures quoted here
refer to the period 1960/64-1968/72.
6. See Ibidem: Table 10. The weighted average rose from 5.0in 1964/50t05.7 in 1953/57
and declined next to 5.5 in 1968/72.
7. See Polly Hill (1970:21): 'In some districts "native farmers" (i.e. farmers who were born
in the district in question) predominate and some of these farmers may, if one wishes,
be referred to as "peasants" - though for myself, I prefer not to use that word with all
its emotional overtones, and to refer to "sedentary" or "non-migrant" farmers.'
8. It is in this sense that Griffin uses the word 'peasant'; see 'peasant-biased' technical change
(1979: 49ff.).
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