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1. Radha Sinha, Food and Poverty (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976), p. 26.
2. John Stuart Mill, Political Economy, Book 3, Chapter 25 (emphasis added).
3. Peter Feldman and David Lawrence, "Social and Economic Implications of the Large-Scale Introduction of New
Varieties of Food grains," Africa Report, preliminary draft (Geneva: UNRISD, 1975), pp. 107-108.
4. Edgar Owens, The Right Side of History, unpublished manuscript, 1976.
5. Walter Rodney, How Europe Under- developed Africa (London: Bogle- L 'Ouverture Publications, 1972), pp.
171-172.
6. Ferdinand Ossendowski, Slaves of the Sun (New York: Dutton, 1928), p. 276.
7. Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, pp. 171-172.
8.lbid.,p.181.
9. Clifford Geertz, Agricultural Involution (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963), pp. 52-
53.
10. Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, p. 185.
11. Ibid., p. 184.
12. Ibid., p. 186.
13. George L. Beckford, Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1972), p.99.
14. Ibid., p. 99, quoting from Erich Jacoby, Agrarian Unrest in Southeast Asia (New York: Asia Publishing House,
Why Can't People Feed Themselves?
By Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins
From Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, Random House, 1977
1961), p. 66.
15. Pat Flynn and Roger Burbach, North American Congress on Latin America, Berkeley, California, recent
investigation.
16. Feldman and Lawrence, "Social and Economic Implications," p. 103.
17. Special Sahelian Office Report, Food and Agriculture Organization, March 28,1974, pp. 88-
89.
18. Alan Adamson, Sugar Without Slaves: The Political Economy of British Guiana, 1838-1904 (New Haven and
Lon- don: Yale University Press, 1972).
19. Ibid., p. 41.
20. Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (New York: Putnam, 1966), p. 110.
21. Ibid., p. 121.
22. Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama, vol. I (New York: Pantheon, 1966), pp. 448- 449. 23. Feldman and Lawrence,
"Social and Economic Implications," D. 189.
(From Lappe, Frances Moore, and Joseph Collins Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity. Random House, 1977,
pp. 99-111.)