Producers of crops declared illicit

Women and Drugs in Myanmar

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:14:11 +0000

What’s the role and position of women in opium cultivation areas in Myanmar? What is life like for women who use drugs in Myanmar? This primer maps out the gendered dynamics of drug policy in Myanmar ...

Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia’s favourite cash crop

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:25:06 +0000

Colombia’s current peace process is facing numerous challenges. In a country that has suffered the worst impacts of the international drug war, one main dilemma is this: what to do with rural regions ...

Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:00:46 +0000

Colombia is in the midst of a coca boom, perhaps its largest ever. The coca boom’s causes are complex, and Colombia’s government is hoping that the U.S. government will respond in a manner that recog ...

Joint statement

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:30:57 +0000

Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtained during the 50 years of the war on drugs (in the ...

The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:42:07 +0000

The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug policy reform in general and were at risk of bein ...

To win the war on drugs, stop brutalising farmers who grow them

Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:05:26 +0000

Reform of international drug control is urgently needed. The war on drugs has left a trail of suffering and criminality in its wake and has manifestly failed to achieve its objectives. The UN special ...

Cash crops poisoned in Pondoland

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:12:23 +0000

The villagers keep watch from January, waiting for police helicopters to thud over the hills. Every year, for nearly three decades, their plantations have been poisoned towards the end of summer, rig ...

The Heemskerk Declaration

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:38:27 +0000

In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to the United Nations General Assembly Special Sessio ...

Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:30:31 +0000

Current drug control polices in South-east Asia are repressive and criminalise opium farmers, greatly affecting the lives of communities cultivating opium. Most policy responses – including from some ...

Cannabis in the Caribbean

Tue, 12 May 2015 14:32:01 +0000

Patrick Junior Leon Cottle, co-founder of the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Cannabis Revivial Committee (SVGCRC), adresses in this video the group attending the 13th Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, or ...

Conditioning Alternative Development to previous eradication should be abandoned

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:40:21 +0000

Conditioning Alternative Development (AD) participation to previous eradication should be abandoned as a policy, since it has proved to be counterproductive. As long as the amount of hectares eradica ...

Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:52:38 +0000

The undersigned, constituting "The Steering Committee", acting on behalf of small farmers (families) of controlled plants, from all geographical regions in the world, along with civil society organiz ...

First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:29:14 +0000

In July 2013 TNI and Paung Ku organised the First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum, bringing together some 30 representatives of local communities involved in opium cultivation and local community ...

An opportunity lost

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:20:56 +0000

At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNODC claimed that currently in Peru the surface plant ...

Valencia Declaration on Alternative Development

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:57:53 +0000

Producers of crops declared illicit, such as opium, coca and cannabis, from throughout the world convened at the Observatory of Crops Declared Illicit (OCDI) in Valencia (Spain) on November 9-10, 201 ...

Alternative development from the perspective of Colombian farmers

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:11:16 +0000

Alternative Development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocates and detractors debating whether such programmes ...

FMPCDI Declaration at side event of UN meeting

Fri, 15 May 2009 17:57:36 +0000

The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), and its High Level (political) Segment (HLS), was a key moment where the conclusions and recommendations resulting from the January Barcelona Forum could ...

Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:19:43 +0000

Why peasants from certain regions of the world cultivate the three plants – coca leaves, cannabis and opium poppy – that the international conventions have declared to be illicit? That was the essent ...

Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:52:34 +0000

The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated social conflicts; contributed to various types of su ...

Coca or death?

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:17:44 +0000

Following Bolivia's 2002 parliamentary elections, the success of the political party headed by cocalero leader Evo Morales, rekindled debate regarding cocalero organisations in the Andes and their vi ...