Study on the Cultivation of Staple Food Crops and their Social Influence in Colonial PALOP

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02888
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: ISHIKAWA HIROKI 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 准教授 (40552378)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: アフリカ / ポルトガル / 歴史 / 植民地 / 農業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Portugal possessed large colonies in Africa. Angola and other former Portuguese colonies in Africa are called PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African Countries). The purpose of this study is to reveal the cultivation of staple food crops, especially crops indigenous to New World such as cassava, in PALOP under the Portuguese colonial rule, by collecting and researching agricultural census, published in PALOP at the end of the Portuguese colonial rule.

Free Research Field

歴史学