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Terrorist plots foiled in Middle East and North Africa with help from UNODC supported programme

Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts

17 January 2019 - Terrorist activity is complex and constantly evolving, and addressing it requires increased regional and international cooperation. The Multi-Agency Task Force (MATF), set up by UNODC to strengthen cooperation on terrorist cases among countries in the Middle East and North Africa, confirmed this point by helping foil a terrorist plot in late 2018.[Read More]

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Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts

Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts

14 January 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) alternative development programme in Lao PDR helps farmers move from cultivating opium to cash crops such as coffee. As part of this effort, UNODC enabled a group of new coffee farmers from the North of the country to participate in a week-long study visit to an already established community of coffee growers in southern Laos.[Read More]

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Myanmar opium cultivation continues to drop as regional drug market changes: UNODC report

Myanmar Opium Survey 2018

11 January 2019 - The area of opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar dropped to 37,300 hectares in 2018, down 10 per cent from the 41,000 hectares recorded in 2017, according to the Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).[Read More]

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