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Crop spraying
December 2007
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.

Drug Policy Briefing 25
Coca, Petroleum and Conflict in Cofán Territory
September 2007
Moritz Tenthoff

Under the guise of the war on drugs and terror, the way is being cleared for major economic interests in the Lower Putumayo (Colombia). This paper examines the impact of coca cultivation, petroleum activity and the armed conflict on the ancestral territory of the Cofán community.

Drug Policy Briefing 23
Colombia coca cultivation survey results
June 2007
Drugs and Democracy

Despite 2006 witnessing the most intensive use of fumigation in the country’s history, some 157,200 hectares of cultivation areas were detected, 13,200 hectares more than in 2005. Is the fumigation strategy failing?

Drug Policy Briefing 22
The politicisation of fumigations
February 2007
Drugs and Democracy

The insistence on fumigation, despite its undeniable failure in practice, is a sign that fumigation involves interests that go beyond antinarcotics and represent what are essentially political interests, to justify the US military and law enforcement presence in such a sensitive region.

Drug Policy Briefing 20
The Sierra de la Macarena
September 2006
Drugs and Democracy

Re-establishing fumigation is not going to legitimise or win acceptance of the State's activities in the territory of the Park. It is not going to protect the Park from the environmental deterioration generated by the critical interventions of social and military actors in the war. It is also...

Drug Policy Briefing 19
Aerial spraying knows no borders
September 2005
Drugs and Democracy

In this briefing the Transnational Institute explains why the Colombian government has been unwilling to give ground on this minimal demand, which the Ecuadorians have been making since 2001, shortly after the aerial spraying began as part of Plan Colombia.

Drug Policy Briefing 15
Vicious Circle
March 2001
Martin Jelsma

Aerial fumigations with herbicides of drug crops in Colomba set in motion a vicious circle of human, social and environmental destruction. A worldwide campaign calls for the end of these harmful and inefficient forced eradication practices.

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