Items tagged with fumigation
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| ‘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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers [04.10.2019] | No one knows with confidence how many small-scale cannabis farmers there are in South Africa, but the number is large: one organisation estimates 900 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| On the hunt for poppies In Mexico — America's biggest heroin supplier [14.01.2018] | Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state is now the top source of heroin for the American drug epidemic, which resulted in more than 64,000 overdose deat ... |
| Cash crops poisoned in Pondoland [07.04.2016] | The villagers keep watch from January, waiting for police helicopters to thud over the hills. Every year, for nearly three decades, their plantations ... |
| The problem of glyphosate spraying [13.04.2015] | An article published recently in El Espectador commented on the two issues that underpin the Colombian discourse on the subject of drugs. To be preci ... |
| War on dagga puts rural people at toxic risk, specialists warn [18.03.2015] | The climate in the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape in South Africa has made cultivating dagga (cannabis sativa) popular since people settled here cent ... |
| Cannabis valley in Kazakhstan to be destroyed with herbicides [09.10.2014] | The “legendary” Chui Valley may be destroyed with herbicides. Legendary in quotes – because the Valley is known primarily for cannabis that grow ther ... |
| Colombia, more than three decades of toxic sprayings. Enough! [26.09.2014] | It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial sprayings in ... |
| Analysis: Colombia’s fight against the coca trade [05.09.2013] | EL TARRA, 28 August 2013 (IRIN) - The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial sprayin ... |
| Cross Purposes [01.06.2003] | The anti-drug strategy in Colombia limits the establishment of the basic political conditions necessary to attain the socio-economic goals of alterna ... |
| A Failed Balance [01.03.2002] | In the area of failed alternative development (AD) projects, the Andean region has its sorry share to contribute. The constant peasant uprisings n th ... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
| A Lost Opportunity [15.06.1998] | United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) New York, 8-10 June 1998 The "United Nations General Assembly Spec ... |
| Background briefing on UNGASS [24.03.1998] | Background on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Control Martin Jelsma TNI Briefing, March 1998 The "Special Session of the ... |
| SCOPE: Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination [14.03.1998] | UNDCPs 1998 plan to eradicate the cultivation of both coca and opium poppy by the year 2008 was a rare opportunity to re-think current drugs efforts. ... |
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