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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Reading

Cash crop: Peruvian farmers looking over a field of coca seedlings. Thomas Grisaffi

February 8, 2021

Cocaine: falling coffee prices force Peru’s farmers to cultivate coca

Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading and Linda Farthing, University of Reading

Coca is illegal – and there are harsh penalties for cultivating it. But farmers whose families face poverty say they have no choice.

Demonstrators protest demanding the resignation of the country’s interim president Jeanine Añez in El Alto, Bolivia, August 14 2020. EPA-EFE/STR

September 7, 2020

Bolivia reverses years of progress with new draconian cocaine policy, supported by the EU

Kathryn Ledebur, University of Reading; Linda Farthing, University of Reading, and Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading

Bolivia’s drug control strategy was once internationally applauded.

May 30, 2020

Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia

Thomas Grisaffi, University of Reading; Kathryn Ledebur, University of Reading, and Linda Farthing, University of Reading

Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.

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