Items tagged with coca
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| Coca price crash contributing to Colombia food insecurity, UN says [14.07.2023] | A crash in the price of coca, the chief ingredient in cocaine, is contributing to food insecurity in Colombia and causing displacement, as people lea ... |
| If you care about the climate crisis, fight to legalize drugs [07.07.2023] | On June 26, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its annual report on the illicit drug trade. The headline is that despite millions ... |
| Amid worsening food shortages, we need to turn over a new leaf on the coca plant [23.03.2023] | The coca leaf has been a staple in Andean communities for centuries, serving as a source of nutrition, as an aide for altitude adjustment, and as an ... |
| Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report [19.02.2023] | Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study has found. Successive recent ... |
| Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing [20.08.2022] | Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to th ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| In blow for cannabis advocates, Italy's high court blocks referendum [16.02.2022] | A referendum on making growing cannabis legal in Italy has been blocked by the country's constitutional court. In a ruling judges said the law would ... |
| The War on Drugs and the denial of indigenous rights [09.08.2021] | As a colonial construct, the global drug control regime has undermined the rights of indigenous peoples (including the right to self determination, a ... |
| U.S. 'war on drugs' in Latin America needs overhaul amid COVID-19 challenges, report says [01.12.2020] | The United States’ anti-drug policy in Latin America needs to change if Washington is to effectively combat a problem worsened by the COVID-19 pandem ... |
| ‘I will be left with nothing’: Why Colombians are watching the U.S. election closely [02.11.2020] | Coca fumigations started in Colombia in the early 1990s and intensified during “Plan Colombia,” a $10 billion U.S. campaign that ran from 2000 to 201 ... |
| Colombia lawmakers seek to take control of cocaine market. It’s a long shot [21.09.2020] | Legislators weary of Colombia’s whack-a-mole anti-narcotics efforts propose to stop the often violent trafficking of cocaine that has plagued the cou ... |
| Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16.06.2020] | Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| The controversial new deployment of US troops in Colombia [02.06.2020] | The decision to send US troops into Colombia to help against drug trafficking is a troubling one, whether as part of the two countries’ security stra ... |
| Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia [30.05.2020] | When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal coc ... |
| Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] | The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ... |
| Honduras goes from transit nation to cocaine producer [19.03.2020] | Over the last decade, Honduras has seen a proliferation of laboratories capable of transforming coca leaf into cocaine hydrochloride. This means that ... |
| Glyphosate and cocaine: Colombia's next drug war? [09.03.2020] | Pedro Arenas is afraid that they'll take flight again. "I expect it could be within the next months," he says. Since the end of last year, nine AT-80 ... |
| The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia [29.02.2020] | At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued th ... |
| The world's biggest legal coca industry might get shut down [26.02.2020] | Bolivia is one of three countries in the world that produce the bulk of the world’s coca, the green leafy plant that is the base ingredient for cocai ... |
| Colombia will tackle cocaine with a cancer-causing chemical. Only problem is, it won't work [21.01.2020] | The Colombian government has published a proposed law that will allow it to resume a controversial program of aerial fumigation of coca crops using g ... |
| Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties [20.12.2019] | While many Canadians have focused on the supply problems and overly optimistic business projections that have marred Ottawa's marijuana legalization ... |
| Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25.11.2019] | From 16 to 18 October 2019, representatives of member states, intergovernmental organisations, and civil society attended the 6th Intersessional Meet ... |
| Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again [10.07.2019] | It was eight years ago the last time planes came to spray poison on Noralba Quintero’s coca crop in the jungled foothills here by the mighty Magdalen ... |
| How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
| Migrants and traditional use [25.04.2019] | For the past several years, Fundación ICEERS, with the support of allied organisations such as the Transnational Institute (TNI), has been assisting ... |
| A death foretold: Colombia’s crop substitution program [01.04.2019] | The government’s failure to comply with the coca crops substitution program in Colombia has left the future of almost 100,000 families in limbo and s ... |
| Glyphosate alone won’t fix Colombia’s complex coca woes [14.03.2019] | Colombia’s Constitutional Court is debating lifting a judicial ban on the spraying of glyphosate during the aerial fumigation of illicit coca crops, ... |
| Peruvian farmers abandoning coffee plantations for coca fields [07.03.2019] | A drop in coffee prices is forcing hundreds of Peruvian farmers to seek work in coca plantations-a sign that the country, like its neighbor Colombia, ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
| Colombia continues to break records for cocaine production, report says [19.09.2018] | Colombia is desperate to shed its reputation as a nation dogged by the drug trade, but new figures from the United Nations show that it continues to ... |
| Murder in Colombia’s peace laboratory [19.07.2018] | Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with ... |
| Colombia coca production hits new record high, US figures say [26.06.2018] | US estimates of coca production in Colombia show the Andean nation has set a new record for the amount of the drug-producing crop under cultivation, ... |
| More drugs, more deaths, more damage... [26.06.2018] | In 2012, Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, referred to current drug control efforts as something akin to riding a stationary bicycle. "One kee ... |
| Record coca, record murders: the flipside of “peace” in southern Colombia [20.06.2018] | Hundreds of Colombian farmers, activists, and community organisers have been killed over the past 18 months, despite the landmark peace deal that sup ... |
| Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst ... |
| Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure [27.10.2017] | According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia’s overall coca crop grew by a staggering 52 percent last year, to 345,000 acres, an area te ... |
| Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge [14.09.2017] | U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reve ... |
| What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy? [30.08.2017] | The planned resignation of the US State Department's top anti-drug official raises further questions about the future of US counternarcotics efforts ... |
| Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords [11.08.2017] | Getting to the Briceño region in the heart of Antioquia requires an excellent vehicle, and a lot of time and luck. The week before our journey there ... |
| After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace [18.07.2017] | Every three months or so, Javier Tupaz, a father of six, heads downhill from his clapboard home to work in his cocaine laboratory. Under a black tent ... |
| Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars? [17.05.2017] | Colombia's defense minister divulged new coca eradication figures ahead of a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his US counte ... |
| Were peasant farmers poisoned by the U.S. war on drugs? [19.04.2017] | After a 15-year legal battle, a U.S. jury will begin deliberations over whether a U.S. security contractor must pay damages to 2,000 Ecuadoran farmer ... |
| Acquittal in Spanish coca leaf legal case [23.03.2017] | BARCELONA - Yesterday the unprecedented resolution of a court case for the importation of coca leaf powder (also known as mambe) took place at the Pr ... |
| Bolivia sees coca as a way to perk up its economy – but all everyone else sees is cocaine [15.03.2017] | The vision of an expanding international market for legal coca products – such as flour, tea and ointments – is shared widely in Bolivia, and it was ... |
| Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords [13.03.2017] | 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 ... |
| Joint statement [13.03.2017] | Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtaine ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | 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 ... |
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