od dependence, especially on North American supplies, will increase in the coming years (300).
There are differences between the "traditional communal social systems" of Africa and the "agrarian structures" of Latin America and Asia, but there is little difference in "the contemporary economic status of the small farmer" in the three Third World regions (311). The major goal of the farmer in all three regions is merely to survive. Even in areas where agricultural productivity has increased, the result has not been great overall because the populations of these areas has increased at the same time. If agricultural development does not take place quickly in all three regions, "then hundreds of millions of impoverished and increasingly landless rural dwellers face an even more precarious existence in the years immediately ahead" (311).
Todaro writes that the important role of women in the agricultural sectors of Third World regions has been overlooked by economic planners. There has been little effort to improve the conditions or productivity of women in these r
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