While a restocking scheme was also inaugurated, most of those in the relief camps were re-established either in newly expanded collectives and state farms along the Shebelle and Juba Rivers in the south, or in coastal fishing communities to supply the Russian-aided fish-canning industry. Although the Somali government had hoped the costs of this vast re-settlement would be met from Arab funds, in the event it was organized by the Russians who provided air and road transport on a massive scale. This sudden re-location of Somali population, involving up-rooting people from their traditional grazing areas and re-settling them amongst unrelated clans and lineages, where they were to change from nomadic herdsmen to sedentary cultivators or fishermen (both occupations traditionally despised by the nomads), was a bold and hazardous undertaking.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 529