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Illicit crops in the frontier margins: Amazonian indigenous livelihoods and the expansion of coca in Peru Maritza Paredes and Alvaro Pastor. Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This paper explores illegal…Read More >

New working paper by Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi. An Alternative to ‘Alternative Development’?  How Bolivia limited coca cultivation by moving away from militarized repression.  You can read the the…Read More >

Rural women’s rights: the impact of organizing by Bolivia’s coca growing women by Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi Abstract:  Evo Morales’ administration (2005-2019) had a firm commitment to improving the…Read More >

Narcotrafficking is a bloody business throughout Latin America, but less so in Bolivia. By Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi Originally published in NACLA and Latin America News Dispatch. Lurching along cobbled…Read More >

The edited collection ‘Cocaine: from coca fields to the streets’ is now open access. To access click here. Thank you to Knowledge Unlatched and Duke University Press for making this…Read More >

Excellent new article by our collaborator, Hernán Manrique and published by our partner organisation PUCP: ‘La Empresa Nacional de la Coca (ENACO) y el fracaso del monopolio estatal de la…Read More >

On February 15th 2022, Prof Maritza Paredes will present reserach findings from our GCRF ‘Drugs and Development in the Andes’ project alongside colleagues working on Mexico and South Africa. The…Read More >

Escrito por Álvaro Pastor Revista Ideele N°301. Diciembre 2021. Imagen: Diego Pérez / SPDA Lee el artículo original aquí Durante estos últimos años hemos sido testigos de un crecimiento significativo de las actividades…Read More >

By Enrique Desmond Arias & Thomas Grisaffi Read the original version on the Urban Violence Research Network Blog. There is a clear relationship between the expansion of unfettered free markets and participation…Read More >

Link for more information here. On Thursday, 16 December 2021 at 18:15 (Munich), Dr. Thomas Grisaffi talks about “Coca, Cocaine, and the Embedded Economy in the Chapare, Bolivia” When?  Thursday, 16…Read More >

New article by Thomas Grisaffi published in Development & Change journal Read the full article here. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12696 ABSTRACT: Bolivia is a centre for drug production and trafficking and yet…Read More >

La Dra. Maritza Paredes, profesora de nuestro Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, y el Dr. Thomas Grisaffi, de la Universidad de Reading (Reino Unido), lideran una investigación sobre las comunidades del…Read More >

Monday, December 6, 1:00pm (EST) RSVP HERE Cocaine, like other commodities, exists on a value chain that runs from fields around the Andes mountains where it is produced to consumers…Read More >

Ver el webinar ‘Desafíos del control de cultivos de coca en el Perú’ aqui. Desde hace 50 años se declaró la “guerra contra las drogas” a nivel internacional y hace…Read More >