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Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780788103629

Identifies opportunities and constraints to coca reduction, primarily in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. Explores potential policy directions by the Federal government to improve the effectiveness of ongoing activities. Contents: factors influencing Coca reduction initiatives; history of selected narcotics supply-reduction efforts; renewable resource-based alternatives to Coca reduction (agricultural, forest, wildlife and wildland, and aquatic); technologies to support alternative crop production; Coca biological control issues. Charts, tables and photos.