Original paper
Where have all the flowers gone?: evaluation of the Taliban crackdown against opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan
Abstract
This study presents what we believe to be the first formal evaluation of the Taliban crackdown against opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the main source of the world's illicit heroin supply for most of the 1990s. From late 2000 and the year that followed, the Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium...
Paper Details
Title
Where have all the flowers gone?: evaluation of the Taliban crackdown against opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan
Published Date
Mar 1, 2005
Volume
16
Issue
2
Pages
81 - 91
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