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Moya Schiller's avatar

Whoa, interesting to connect a reduction in the war on drugs to a reduction in prices to a reduction in ingredients sold, leading to a humanitarian crisis. It seems like no matter what you do, you end up causing some kind of suffering somewhere. :/

Would you say that (either with or without PNIS) in the long run, farmers can realistically return to producing food instead of coca paste, or are the prices they can get for anything else just too low to be able to live off it?

Also - allllll the best to Amy!

And yay capybara map! \o/

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Joshua Collins's avatar

I agree with yay capybara map!!

hahaha. As for crop substitution, I hope so! Last time they tried that though the program reached something like 10% of the farmers who signed up for it. Many were left with harvests they couldn't sell and were abandoned by the state

Actually doing it well would be a great start!

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Edilson Vargas's avatar

"The farmers’ failure sell their coca paste" is a typo for "The farmers' failure to sell their coca paste."

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Joshua Collins's avatar

uuuf. good catch. I will update that on the website, thanks. Unfortunately, the newsletter is already out of the gates. Appreciate it

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