In 1983-84, Tod Ragsdale managed, for the Carolina Population Center (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), a USAID-funded field survey of the demographic, social and economic impact and implications of agricultural and fishing resettlement schemes for Somalia's nomadic population following the 1974 Sahel drought. The results, written up by Ragsdale with a Somali resettlement official, were published in A.S. Oberai, ed. "Land Settlement Policies and Population Redistribution in Developing Countries: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects" (NY: Praeger, 1988). Shown here are the field interviews for the survey, which included both quantitative measures and qualitative aspects and was supported by extensive review of primary and secondary source materials.