Responding to Afghanistan's Opium economy challenge : lessons and policy implications from a development perspective [PDF]
Opium, Afghanistan's leading economic activity, lies at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state building, governance, security, and development.
Byrd, William A.
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Can Afghanistan's Counternarcotics Efforts Survive NATO Withdrawal? [PDF]
, 2011 World Politics ReviewOn June 26, at a gathering in Kabul marking World Counter Narcotics Day, the mood was somber. Gone was the positive spin of last year's event, when Afghanistan's minister of counternarcotics, Zarar Ahmad Moqbil, proudly announced
DuPee, Matthew C.
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Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply: Latest Trends, Cross-cutting Issues [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan [PDF]
, 2009 We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order.
Lind, Jo Thori, Moene, Karl Ove
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OUT OF STEP? AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND AFGHAN LIVELIHOODS [PDF]
Agricultural and Food Policy,
Christoplos, Ian
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Interstates Cooperation for Irrigation of Amu Darya River Banks, Its Potential Role as a Solution for the Poppy Problem [PDF]
Depletion of water resources requires us to search for non-conventional strategies for water preservation and irrigation. Sustainable management of such water resources along with the development of sustainable irrigation systems will contribute to the ...
Nader Ghotbi, Tsuneo Tsukatani
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Proficiency test for opium alkaloids in poppy seeds and bakery products : EURLPT-MP09 (2023)
, 2023 D.P.K.H. Pereboom +3 more
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Journal of Medicinal Plants, 2012 Background: Opium poppy contains important pharmaceutical alkaloids such as Morphine, Codeine, Thebaine, Noscapine, Papaverine and Sanguinarine which are of a high economic value in pharmaceutical industries.
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The Economy of Opium and Heroin Production in Afghanistan and Its Impact on HIV Epidemiology in Central Asia [PDF]
The dramatic increase of poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan has led to a serious drug addiction problem in te world. The rising heroin use, because of needle sharing, may lead to a much higher incidence of HIV infection and AIDS in ...
Nader Ghotbi, Tsuneo Tsukatani
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