The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context
The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of current peace talks between the Santos government and the...
View ArticleTalkingDrugs launches new website
TalkingDrugs has been re-designed for a more engaging and accessible experience. The website, which was re-launched today, is available in 27 languages and provides a space for people to share stories...
View ArticleU.S. elections and the war on drugs
In 2008, candidate Obama promised that if elected, he would seek to change the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, reverse the federal government’s interventionist stance on state...
View ArticleAerial spraying of coca routinely destroys legitimate food crops in Colombia
Colombian NGO as the association of women pineapple growers and the action board of community of Orocayo in Putumayo, Colombia, denounce the destruction of legitimate food crops produced by the aerial...
View ArticleGuatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" as the...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Luis Fernando Carrera Castro, presented the issue "Alternative Strategies for Combating Drugs" as his country’s proposal for the central theme of the upcoming...
View ArticleCount the cost video: The drug war undermines security and development
For many decades, the United Nations has relied on the eradication of drug crops, interdiction of trafficking and strengthening the military and law enforcement agencies to fight drug trafficking, but...
View ArticleBetween Reality and Abstraction: Guiding Principles and developing...
At the International Conference on Alternative Development , held 15-16 November 2012 in Lima, the Peruvian Government continued to insist on the relevance of “Alternative Development ,” with...
View ArticleHurt by bad policy: Why the most vulnerable are needed for better drug policies
Farmers who make a living growing opium are not the enemy, according to panelists at the debate entitled “Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor,” held February 20 as part of the Central European...
View ArticleUNODC and UNIDO will promote development in rural communities dependent on...
UNODC and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization will join forces to promote grass-roots development in poor rural communities dependent on the cultivation of illicit drug crops. An...
View ArticleFrom conflict to collaboration: An innovative approach to reducing coca...
Upon his presidential election, Bolivian coca grower leader Evo Morales adopted a policy of promoting consensual coca reduction through social control, a sophisticated coca monitoring system, and...
View ArticleDrugs and development: Punishing the poor
Throughout many parts of the developing world, the cultivation of illicit crops is the only economically viable option for small farmers. Despite major investments in alternative livelihood programs,...
View ArticleCount the costs: Undermining development and security, fuelling conflict
The war on drugs is actively undermining development and security in many of the world's most fragile regions and states.Drug traffickers can be more confident of a reliable, cheap supply of coca leaf,...
View ArticleAfghanistan Opium Survey 2012
In 2012, the Opium Risk Assessment is carried out in two phases similar to last year. The first phase was carried out in December 2011 and January 2012 and covered the Central, Eastern, Southern and...
View ArticleOAS Analytical Report - The drug problem in the Americas
The past two years have seen a much more active and intense hemispheric discussion of drug policies. There appears to be greater openness now to a dialogue on current policies and, in some sectors, a...
View ArticleBringing development In: A comprehensive approach to tackling illicit drug...
Following on from The Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup which took place earlier this year, Institute of Development Studies is hosting a meeting of development and drug policy-makers and...
View ArticleWhy is the international development community absent from debates on drug...
In a blog published today, Dr Schultze-Kraft, who is Governance Team Leader at IDS and co-chair of the Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup, calls for the formation of an international global...
View ArticleBringing development in: Tackling the negative effects of illicit drugs and...
In early 2013, the Institute of Development Studies hosted the Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup, a new forum for discussing the nexus between the production, trade and use of illicit drugs,...
View Article1st prison naloxone peer educator group launched in Scotland
Six prisoners are the first to complete the two-day Scottish Drugs Forum Naloxone Training for Trainers course held towards the end of October. One prison officer also took part in the two day training...
View ArticleImprovements to drug treatment in Scotland
Changes in response to independent review on opioid replacements.Changes aimed at improving the quality and range of drug treatment services across the country were announced in the Scottish Parliament...
View ArticleShifts in cultivation, usage put Bolivia’s coca policy at the crossroads
The violence that erupted during a coca eradication campaign in Apolo, Bolivia, in October was sadly reminiscent of the violence and conflict that characterized the “zero coca” policies of previous...
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