s based represent the best estimates based upon the improved data collection procedures of recent years. As the data presented in Chart 1 indicate, even in the best of times over the 40 year period of analysis, agricultural growth has never matched population growth in Ethiopia.
The rate of growth in agricultural production for the 1951 1990 time period is compared to the country's food import dependency rate in Chart 2, which may be found on the following page. As the data presented in Chart 2 indicate, Ethiopia has never (over the 40 year period of analysis) been free of food import dependency. During each of the periods of agricultural output decline, however, the country's food import dependency rate rose significantly.
Agricultural production as a proportion of Ethiopia's gross domestic product for the 1951 1990 time period is illustrated in Chart 3, which may be found on page 5. As the data presented in Chart 3 indicate, the subsistence nature of the Ethiopian
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