Items tagged with producers
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| Small ganja farmers to get help to legalise cultivation [20.03.2017] | The Government of Jamaica is to undertake a programme to help small ganja farmers benefit from a legal regulated cannabis industry. The project dubbe ... |
| Turning weed to wine, helping Bekaa farmers go straight [19.11.2016] | Hashish cultivation is widespread in the Bekaa Valley with many relying on the illegal crop for their livelihoods. In an attempt to curb the illicit ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug ... |
| New agreement brings no end to war on drugs in ASEAN [26.04.2016] | The outcome of the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs in New York resulted in an outcome document that brings little new to the table. Nang ... |
| TNI at UNGASS 2016: reports from New York [20.04.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 30th session of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York from the ... |
| To win the war on drugs, stop brutalising farmers who grow them [19.04.2016] | Reform of international drug control is urgently needed. The war on drugs has left a trail of suffering and criminality in its wake and has manifestl ... |
| Cash crops poisoned in Pondoland [07.04.2016] | The villagers keep watch from January, waiting for police helicopters to thud over the hills. Every year, for nearly three decades, their plantations ... |
| The Heemskerk Declaration [20.01.2016] | In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to ... |
| Ganja ready for the big times [17.09.2015] | Going by the announcement by Canada-based Timeless Herbal Care Limited (THC), Jamaica stands to benefit from a US$100-million deal to develop medical ... |
| Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum [10.09.2015] | Current drug control polices in South-east Asia are repressive and criminalise opium farmers, greatly affecting the lives of communities cultivating ... |
| The tragedy of the ganja policy [08.08.2015] | The amendment of the Dangerous Drugs Act 2015 in February has laid the foundation for the development of the policy framework governing a ganja indus ... |
| None but ourselves can 'free' the weed [04.07.2015] | Traditional small ganja farmers in Jamaica, accustomed to clandestinely working their fields, will now have to adhere to strict regulations in order ... |
| Ganja is our 'life blood' – western farmers [01.06.2015] | With Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell stating that Jamaica plans to become a world leader in exploiting the economic ... |
| Canadian company to tap into Jamaica for medicinal cannabis supply [04.04.2015] | A Canadian company is seeking to tap into the Jamaican market for the supply of dried marijuana to the medicinal marijuana industry in Canada. Market ... |
| Farmers encouraged to make use of ganja opportunities [18.03.2015] | Small ganja farmers across the island are being encouraged to make use of the opportunities that will be available in the medicinal ganja industry. S ... |
| Conditioning Alternative Development to previous eradication should be abandoned [12.03.2015] | Conditioning Alternative Development (AD) participation to previous eradication should be abandoned as a policy, since it has proved to be counterpro ... |
| Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [09.03.2015] | The undersigned, constituting "The Steering Committee", acting on behalf of small farmers (families) of controlled plants, from all geographical regi ... |
| Ganja decriminalisation: Three the hard way [02.03.2015] | February 24, 2015 was an especially emotional day for three of the stalwarts who have fought for the decriminalisation of ganja. It was the day the H ... |
| Ganja interests wary of internal business rivalry [31.01.2015] | Despite strong ministerial and legislative signals, segments of the marijuana lobby are unsure that sufficient protections will be afforded to the pe ... |
| Cannabis farmers support calls to legalize lucrative crop [23.12.2014] | With the war in Syria stifling the economy and bringing in a flood of refugees in the Bekaa Valley, as well as the closure of smuggling roads and per ... |
| Marijuana farmers in the Bekaa struggling to survive as profits decline [12.09.2014] | Farmers in the Bekaa Valley are not ashamed of growing marijuana. It is neither a disgrace nor a mistake, “We grow it to survive” they say candidly. ... |
| Dynamics of ganja cultivation in Manipur [16.08.2014] | In the absence of alternative means of livelihood, ganja cultivation for decades has been the mainstay of livelihood for many families in the backwar ... |
| Cannabis: Les cultivateurs sortent du guet [07.04.2014] | Le PAM a réussi à réunir les cultivateurs de cannabis de la région de Bab Berred. Des centaines de personnes, liées à la culture de cette plante suje ... |
| Illegal cannabis and opium cultivation ride high in Parvati Valley in HP [29.03.2013] | "You want to buy charas? Hashish? Top quality," are invariably the first words you will hear in Malana. Tucked safely away on the highest mountains f ... |
| Valencia Declaration on Alternative Development [09.11.2012] | Producers of crops declared illicit, such as opium, coca and cannabis, from throughout the world convened at the Observatory of Crops Declared Illici ... |
| Yammouneh rises: Hashish is our livelihood [04.08.2012] | Clashes erupted in the town of Yammouneh in the Bekaa valley between local hashish farmers and security forces. The farmers in the largely marginaliz ... |
| Lebanon: Hashish growers and the Government face off [13.07.2012] | It is hard to predict how this year’s planned destruction of the hashish crop in the Bekaa will play out. The farmers insist on confronting any such ... |
| Alternative development from the perspective of Colombian farmers [15.05.2011] | Alternative Development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocat ... |
| The case for small-scale domestic cannabis cultivation [01.07.2010] | The shift to (inter)regional production, trade and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most ... |
| FMPCDI Declaration at side event of UN meeting [15.05.2009] | 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 [29.01.2009] | Why peasants from certain regions of the world cultivate the three plants – coca leaves, cannabis and opium poppy – that the international convention ... |
| Downward Spiral [01.06.2005] | Opium farmers in Afghanistan and Burma are coming under huge pressure as local authorities implement bans on the cultivation of poppy. Banning opium ... |
| Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru [01.03.2005] | The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated so ... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
| Statement of Evo Morales [25.02.1998] | 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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