In the years since, he has received innumerable death threats. Women and children of poppy farmers have hurled stones at his policemen. One of his eradication tractors was torched. The grim axiom ...

The ban led to a recorded 95% drop in poppy harvests in 2023. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, farmers' income from opium sales fell from an estimated $1.36 billion (€1.29 billion ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

NANGARHAR, Afghanistan-- In a small district in southern Afghanistan, U.S.-backed Afghan drug forces opened fire on farmers who were blocking roads and throwing rocks to protest the destruction of ...

somebody has to fill the markets and that may push the Myanmar opium poppy farmers to increasingly engage in opium poppy cultivation.” In 2024, however, UNODC says the fighting at the heart of ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...

The drastic reduction in poppy cultivation for opium in Afghanistan has had significant consequences for farmers and vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan, mostly in the southwestern ...