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Afghanistan: Eradicating opium through development
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Bipasha Ray reports that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime issued its annual winter survey of poppy planting patterns and predicted a poppy harvest close to last year’s record, while a UK governmental development agency and the World Bank say that it will take at least 20 years and £1 billion in investment to break the Afghanistan's economy’s dependence on opium. View original post.
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