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    The security approach to the drugs problem
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels. Moreover, its relationship to the armed conflict has had serious consequences for the socio-economic conditions of peasant and indigenous communities affected by the...

    Poppies and poverty in Afghanistan
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Kramer

    The opium ban in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province has forced some farmers to move to alternative crops, but many poor farmers have difficulties finding alternative sources of income.

    Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
    Tom Blickman

    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 Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

    Drug Policy Reform in Practice
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Blickman
    The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the article "Drug policy reform in practice: Experiences with alternatives in Europe and the US".
    From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?
    Tom Kramer

    In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma opium bans have ended poppy cultivation, but have caused chronic poverty and food insecurity as a result.

    Countering illicit drug traffic and supply, and alternative development
    Martin Jelsma
     TNI statement

    TNI statement at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs 52nd Session, High-level Segment Round Table D - 12 March 2009, 2.30-5.30 pm

    Elites vs. Greens in the Global South
    Walden Bello
    Last month’s conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S.
    "There Must Be a U-turn to Create Healthy Domestic Markets"
    Walden Bello
     Walden Bello interviewed by Chris Arsenault
    Walden Bello interviewed by Chris Arsenault on the economics and environmental politics of China and South East Asia.

    HALIFAX, Canada, Jan 15 (IPS) - In 1992, Dr. Walden Bello issued a macro-economic warning about the so-called Asian miracle in his book "Dragons in Distress". Six...

    Crop spraying
    Drugs and Democracy

    The United States is putting strong pressure on the Afghan government to officially adopt the strategy of eradicating the opium poppy through aerial spraying of the crops with the herbicide glyphosate.

    Missing Targets
    Drugs and Democracy

    Despite efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to reduce poppy cultivation, opium production in Afghanistan has once again reached record levels in 2007.

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