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| 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... |
| 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... |
| The case for small-scale domestic cannabis cultivation [01-07-10] | The shift to (inter)regional production, trade and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most e... |
| FMPCDI Declaration at side event of UN meeting [15-05-09] | The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), and its High Level (political) Segment (HLS), was a key moment where the conclusions and recommendations ... |
| Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit [29-01-09] | Why peasants from certain regions of the world cultivate the three plants – coca leaves, cannabis and opium poppy – that the international conventions... |
| Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru [01-03-05] | The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated soc... |
| Statement of Evo Morales [25-02-98] | Executive Secretary of the Five Federations of Lowland Peasants in Bolivia and President of the Andean Confederation of Coca Leaf Producers. Meant to ... |
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