IDPC Briefing Paper Drug Policy and Development How Action Against Illicit Drugs Impacts on the Millennium Development Goals

Melis, Martina; Nougier, Marie

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1909924

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“…It is important to note that present drug combat measures, such as fumigation, burning, police hunts, and killing, violate these goals, according to Amelia (2017) and HPA & IDP (2015a). Land dilapidation requires governments to stop aerial and manual fumigation and cannabis farm burning (Butsic et al, 2018;Melis and Nougier, 2010). These findings suggest that measuring and evaluating effectiveness is an important part of development-oriented drug control.…”

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Impact of alternative development on reducing the security threat posed by cannabis cultivation: A case of Tain District, Ghana

Kofi Boateng,

Manpaya M,

Owusu-Manu D

2024

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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Purpose: Cannabis cultivation has supported the local economy and culture of Nsawkaw, Badu, and other communities in the Tain District of the Bono Region for many years. The cultivation's security threat was also important, according to this study's respondents. However, any Alternative Development (AD) program to replace this old enterprise must entail community engagement, youth participation, entrepreneurial development, and finances to preserve the culture and tradition of the people. Methodology: Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to analyze data and use the inductive research approach. Cannabis cultivation farmers in Badu and Nsawkaw in Tain District, Opinion Leaders, Narcotics Control Commission employees, and Bono Region NGOs were the study's target demographic. Findings: It was also found that most AD regulations to prevent cannabis cultivation were heavily affected by party politics, leading many people to forsake them. AD must examine how Ghana might allow cannabis cultivation under stringent laws for its many benefits, including medicinal use and quick money. Value: AD should consider marketing, conserving, transporting, and pricing licit crops. The Tree Crops Authority (MOFA) should be proactive in its mandate. Their proactiveness can pique cannabis farmers' interest in tree crops, particularly cashews.

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Impact of alternative development on reducing the security threat posed by cannabis cultivation: A case of Tain District, Ghana

Kofi Boateng,

Manpaya M,

Owusu-Manu D

2024

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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“…However the interrelationships between these phenomena are increasingly acknowledged, and there is a demand for more 'joined up' approaches. A range of factors are driving this integrationist agenda, which has hitherto been driven by the work of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), such as the International Drug Policy Consortium and Christian Aid (Melis & Nougier, 2010;Gutierrez, 2015). Firstly, these policy fields are shaped by structural processes, linked to broader shifts in global governance in the aftermath of the Cold War.…”

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Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma

Goodhand

Meehan

Bhatia

et al. 2021

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Recent years have seen the emergence of a policy consensus around the need for fundamental reforms of global drug policies. This is reflected in the call for 'development-oriented drug policies' that align and integrate drug policies with development and peacebuilding objectives, as captured in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These calls have been important in acknowledging the damage caused by the war on drugs and in drawing attention to how drugs are inextricably linked to wider development and peacebuilding challenges. Yet there is surprisingly limited academic research that looks critically at the drugs-development-peace nexus and which asks whether the goals of a 'drug-free world', 'sustainable development' and 'the promotion of peace' are commensurate with one another, can be pursued simultaneously, or are indeed achievable. This articles studies these policy fields and policy-making processes from the geographical margins of the statefrontiers and borderland regionsbecause they offer a privileged vantage point for studying the contested nature of policymaking in relation to the drugs-development-peace nexus. We set out a historical political economy framework to critically assess the assumptions underlying the integrationist agenda, as well as the evidence base to support it. By developing the notion of a policy trilemma we are critical of the dominant policy narrative that 'all good things come together', showing instead the fundamental tensions and trade-offs between these policy fields. In exploring the interactions between these policy fields, we aim to advance discussion and debate on how to engage with the tensions and tradeoffs that this integrationist agenda reveals, but which have to date been largely ignored.

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“…This often leads to demands for sexual favours in exchange for the return of drugs. 131 In El Inca, the largest women's prison in Ecuador, male prison guards often demand that incarcerated women provide sexual favours in order to obtain access to services or other necessities. Until 2007, guards were able to call for a full body search at any time and such searches, which included a vaginal search, were used as a form of punishment.…”

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Drug Policy and Women: Addressing the Negative Consequences of Harmful Drug Control

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IDPC Briefing Paper Drug Policy and Development How Action Against Illicit Drugs Impacts on the Millennium Development Goals

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Impact of alternative development on reducing the security threat posed by cannabis cultivation: A case of Tain District, Ghana

Impact of alternative development on reducing the security threat posed by cannabis cultivation: A case of Tain District, Ghana

Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma

Drug Policy and Women: Addressing the Negative Consequences of Harmful Drug Control

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