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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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2 results foundAuthor: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Title: Afghanistan Opium Survey 2017: Challenges to Sustainable Development, Peace, and Security Summary: Executive summary Area under opium poppy cultivation and opium production reached a new record high in 2017. In 2017, opium poppy cultivation increased sharply to an unprecedented record high of 328,000 hectares from an estimated 201,000 hectares in 2016. Between 2016 and 2017, the area under cultivation with opium poppy increased by 127,000 hectares - the increase alone exceeded the levels of annual cultivation of 2009 and 2010. Opium poppy cultivation increased strongly in almost all major poppy cultivating provinces. In Hilmand province alone, cultivation increased by 63,700 hectares (+79 per cent) which accounted for about half of the total national increase between 2016 and 2017. Strong increases were observed also in Balkh (+10,000 hectares or almost five times more than in 2016), Kandahar (+7,500 hectares or +37 per cent), Nimroz (+6,200 hectares or +116 per cent), and Uruzgan (+6,000 hectares or +39 per cent). Mainly caused by the increase in area under cultivation but as well due to good yields, potential opium production almost doubled from its 2016 level (4,800 tons) to 9,000 tons in 2017. Accounting for 57 percent of national production, the Southern region continued to produce the vast majority of opium in Afghanistan, followed by the Northern (16 per cent of national production), Western (13 per cent) and Eastern regions (9 per cent). The MCN/UNODC report "Afghanistan opium survey 2017 - cultivation and production" presents a detailed regional and provincial data on area under cultivation, eradication, yields and production of opium. Details: Afghanistan, 2018. 80p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 5, 2018 at: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Opium-survey-peace-security-web.pdf Year: 2018 Country: Afghanistan URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-opium-survey-2017-challenges-sustainable-development-peace-and Shelf Number: 151472 Keywords: Foreign AssistanceOpium Cultivation |
Author: Mansfield, David Title: The Sun Cannot be Hidden by Two Fingers: Illicit Drugs and the Discussions on a Political Settlement in Afghanistan Summary: An issue largely ignored in the current debates on peace and reconciliation is that of illegal drugs production. Drawing on the authors long term research in Afghanistan the paper analyses the role that illicit drugs and the monies they generate play in the conflict. It should not be forgotten that illicit drugs production and trade is currently the largest single economic sector in Afghanistan. Opium poppy is the country's most valuable cash crop worth US$863 million and employs more people than any other industry in Afghanistan, over 500,000 Full Time Equivalent. The crop occupied an estimated 263,000 hectares of land in 2018; three times more land than it did in 2000 when the Taliban imposed an outright ban. Conservative estimates suggest that opiates alone made up more than 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2018 and that over US$ 40 million in taxes were earned by different armed groups along the value-chain. Given the economic and political importance of the illicit drugs economy in Afghanistan it is unwise to assume the problem away or look to resolve it with wishful and simplistic policy responses - or as the Afghan proverb says the sun cannot be hidden by two fingers. Details: Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2019. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 10, 2019 at: https://areu.org.af/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1904E-The-Sun-Cannot-be-Hidden-by-Two-Fingers1.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Afghanistan URL: https://areu.org.af/publication/1904/ Shelf Number: 156349 Keywords: Afghanistan Drug Production Drug Trafficking Illegal Drugs Illicit Drugs Narcotic Cultivation Opium Cultivation |