UN General Assembly
1967

113. Is it not paradoxical and — I may say — discouraging that the effort of the African producer is not fairly recompensed? The incontrovertible fact remains that despite the adoption of improved techniques, despite the growth of his productivity, despite the increase in his production, the African peasant sees a constant decrease in his purchasing power as a result of the continual decline in the world prices of his surface and sub-surface export products, cocoa, peanuts, cotton, and coffee among others. 114. I have already spoken elsewhere of the danger of that reduction in the monetary income of the African peasant, both in its effect on the public resources of States and in its more distant effect on their economic activities and even on their political stability. Quite recently, at the Fourth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at Kinshasa, I stated: