FIGURE 3 Milled rice production (——), imports (– – – –), and consumption (– · – · –) in Côte d'Ivoire. Source: Adapted from Trueblood, M. A., and N. R. Horenstein. 1986. The Ivory Coast: An Export Market Profile. Foreign Agricultural Economic Report No. 223. Washington, D.C.: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Africa. Although sub-Saharan Africa has received much publicity for its recent famines (for example, the famine caused by drought in Ethopia from 1984 to 1986) and declining per capita food production, per capita food production in Côte d'Ivoire has actually increased considerably over time; agricultural production (which includes non-food crops) has generally increased as well, albeit with more fluctuation (Trueblood and Horenstein, 1986).

The factors responsible for Côte d'lvoire's general economic performance can be credited to a carefully implemented agricultural policy. Since independence in 1960, agriculture in C ôte d'Ivoire has been promoted by planning, research, and investment aided by significant inflows of foreign labor and capital and (on average) by relatively high world prices for Ivoirian exports such as coffee and cacao. The government has lent strong support to the agricultural sector and, in