Illegal drug plant cultivation and armed conflicts.
Case studies from Asia and Northern Africa
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
CNRS Research Fellow (Prodig)
In Rami Zurayk, Eckart Woertz, Rachel Anne Bahn (Ed.). 2018.
Crisis and Conflict in the Agrarian World: An Evolving Dialectic.
Oxon, CABI Publishing, pp. 64-72.
Abstract
In Asia and other continents, the internal peace of a number of countries has been affected, sometimes even conditioned, by the existence of illegal agricultural production and the ensuing illegal trade (Chouvy and Laniel, 2007). However, through loss of politico-territorial control, the armed conflicts that have afflicted certain states have made possible and even encouraged the development of such agricultural production and trafficking.
