The Comparative Studies of the Agrico-pastoral Societies in the Arid Africa.

这个项目的目的是研究非洲东北部农牧社会中关于自给自足经济的技术和丰富的民间知识。调查在苏丹北部和埃塞俄比亚西南部进行。在各国研究机构的努力和合作下，我们可以对我们的安全进行研究作为第一步。每个研究人员都在自己的领域呆了几个月，通过对当地人的直接观察和采访，我们可以获得许多符合项目目标的有价值的信息。主要结果如下：1.研究了几个具有不同农业制度的社会。这将使我们进一步比较研究这些社会被认为是对生态和社会环境的适应。2.另一个重点是一个社会中农牧业的相互关系，这在以前的研究中被忽略了。这个问题似乎对理解自给自足经济的结构和实践非常重要。

The aim of this project was to study both the technology and the indigineous folk knowledge on the subsistence economy in agricultural and pastoral societies in northeasten Africa.The survey was conducted in the northern Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia.Thanks to endeavor and cooperation of the research institution of each country,we could make researches to our safisfaction as a first step. Each researcher stayed in his field for a few months.Through direct observations of and interviews with the local people,we could obtain a lot of valuable informations in line with the aim of the project. Mamor results are as follows.1.Several societies with various kinds of agricultural systems were studied.This woould lead us further to a comparative study of these societies viewed as the adaptations to ecological and social environments.2.Another emphasis was put on the interrelationship between agriculture and pastoralism within one society which has been rather neglected in the former studies.This problem seems to be very important in understanding the structure and practice of the subsistence economy.