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Security Code: Afghanistan is starving—and its farmers are fighting to save the poppy

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Two years ago, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime banned farmers from growing the poppy—the plant whose resin yields opium, then heroin. The severity of the ban saw poppy fields wither away. But promised alternative crops haven’t materialised, and hundreds of thousands of poor peasant families are literally risking their lives to grow poppies again.

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Two years ago, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime banned farmers from growing the poppy—the plant whose resin yields opium, then heroin. The severity of the ban saw poppy fields wither away. But promised alternative crops haven’t materialised, and hundreds of thousands of poor peasant families are literally risking their lives to grow poppies again.

  continue reading

1435 episodes

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