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Given that the diary points to 60% losses on production due to logistical reasons, gross productivity could have increased by a lot - and been lost to parallel increases in logistical losses.

Or there are just too many civil wars in Africa.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 05:02:59 PM EST
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Good catch.

T. S. Payne at the FAO
wrote:

Losses of wheat due to inadequate storage and other post-harvest factors at the farm, village and commercial levels of up to 4 percent have been observed (McFarlane, 1989; Abdullahi and Haile, 1991), though losses in excess of 40 percent for other cereals are not uncommon (NRC, 1996).

[References are to the bibliography at the end of the quoted article.]

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 01:56:04 AM EST
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