Aerial interdiction

One of the "supply side" (crop eradication and interdiction) strategies in the War on Drugs is aerial spraying with herbicides, a tactic that has proven to be ineffective and harmful. The indiscriminate spraying of chemicals has a negative impact on the local ecology and human health. Furthermore, crop eradication without alternative development, leaves small farmers even less economically secure than before, continuing their dependence on drug crop cultivation.