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The intimidation and assassination of social leaders: Colombia’s other pandemic

Social leader Marco Rivadeneira was murdered during the COVID-19 mayhem – intimidation has not ceased as has been reported.

While the World Bank Fragility Forum 2020 was postponed, development leaders still need to rethink their approaches to illicit drugs. Here’s how.

This common assumption doesn’t always hold true. Eric Gutierrez looks to the real problems: inequality, marginalisation and exclusion.

Drugs are likely to play a bigger role in Asia, here’s why and what it means for the region’s drug policies.

Jonathan Goodhand explores historical insights from two books and what they tell us about illicit economies today.

Crop substitution is being underfunded and coercion prioritised. Christian Aid’s Thomas Mortensen explains why.

Our data manager Veerle Van den Eynden shares practical advice on building capacity for good data management.

This blog shares the key results of a survey with coca farmers in two of Colombia’s highest coca producing regions.

The drug fentanyl is devastating Mexican poppy cultivating communities, but it could be an unprecedented opportunity for Mexico.

Explaining and challenging dominant narratives around illicit crops and development, using the curious case of Myanmar.

We need to recognise that people need to survive – they should not be treated as criminals for trying to do so, Christian Aid’s Karol Balfe writes.

The borderlands lie at the country margins, but are central to processes that generate war and peace.