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Items tagged with alternative development

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La nouvelle révolte du kif dans le Rif [01-02-13] Des milliers d’habitants des communes de Beni Jmil et de Ketama, province d’Al Hoceima, ont bruyamment manifesté, samedi 26 janvier 2013, devant les s...
The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [01-02-13] The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of curren...
Between Reality and Abstraction [01-01-13] At the International Conference on Alter­native Development (ICAD), held 15-16 November 2012 in Lima, the Peruvian Government continued to insist on t...
UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: Part II [21-11-12] The International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development approved last week at an international meeting in Lima, Peru, represents a lost opport...
An opportunity lost [19-11-12] At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNODC...
Valencia Declaration on Alternative Development [10-11-12] Producers of crops declared illicit, such as opium, coca and cannabis, from throughout the world convened at the Observatory of Crops Declared Illicit...
UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development [09-11-12] In November 2011 I was invited by the Thai government to take part in an international delegation to develop a set of UN International Guiding Princip...
The impact of Alternative Development in Burma and Laos [25-10-12] At the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) in Vientiane, Laos, from 16 to 19 October 2012, the Transnational Institute (TNI) organised a workshop on alt...
Financing Dispossession - China’s Opium Substitution Programme in Northern Burma [21-02-12] China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alterna...
Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar [15-01-12] Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca f...
Towards a smarter drugs policy [07-01-12] The loudest voices in US drug policy debates call either for enforcing prohibition with ever-increasing ferocity or for giving up altogether by letti...
Drug Policy in the Andes [15-12-11] Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,...
Report of the workshop portion of the International Workshop and Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD) [16-11-11] The present report has been prepared pursuant to Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 53/6 entitled “Follow-up to the promotion of best practices...
The future of Alternative Development [03-11-11] The International Workshop and Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD 2011-2012), an initiative of the Thai and Peruvian governments, will take ...
Peru's new anti-drug czar in delicate dance with U.S. [18-10-11] Peru's leftist government has scored some early victories in its bid to overhaul anti-drugs policy in the world's top coca grower while ke...
USAID's Alternative Development policy in Colombia [01-10-11] Alternative Development (AD) must not be part of a militarised security strategy, which is the predominant approach in Colombia. Instead of simply a...
Alternative development from the perspective of Colombian farmers [15-05-11] Alternative Development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocate...
Expert Workshop on Supply-Oriented Harm Reduction [10-05-11] The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) invited a group of 20 experts for a round-table discussion at the ...
Round Table on Alternative Development [15-03-09] The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illicit...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15-03-09] This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
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