Drug Policy Improvements help meet #SDGs in Chapare Region
According to key socioeconomic indicators, progress in the Chapare coca growing region has outpaced national improvements, reflecting the transformative effects of community coca control and integrative development in meeting UN…
AIN Presents Video at CND Intersessional Meeting
Today, AIN presented a video message at the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND) Intersessional Civil Society Meeting: Alternative development; regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented balanced drug control policy;…
UNODC Official Coca Statistics July 2016
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 2015 Coca Crop Monitoring Survey for Bolivia, showing a one percent reduction in overall cultivation. There was also an increase…
Citizenship or Repression? Coca, Eradication and Development in the Andes – Bolivia
Authors: Thomas Grisaffi and Kathryn Ledebur. (2016) Abstract: For over two decades the US has funded repressive forced coca eradication in Peru, Colombia and Bolivia to reduce the illegal cocaine…