Social control and as supply-side harm reduction strategies. The case of an indigenous community in Peru
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies
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Social control and as supply-side harm reduction strategies. The case of an indigenous community in Peru
Social control as supply-side harm reduction strategy. The case of an indigenous coca growing community in Peru |
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Garcia-Yi, Jaqueline; Department of Agricultural and Food Economics Technical University of Munich |
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coca, cocaína, usos tradicionales de la coca, reducción de daños de la oferta, política de control de drogas, Perú. |
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Traditional coca uses have taken place in Peru and Bolivia from three thousand years. International organizations have urged the implementation of “zero-coca” growing policies in those countries, although without tangible results. Supply-side harm reduction strategies are currently being implemented in Bolivia, which rely on social control to limit, although not totally abolish coca growing. In this article, the different motivations for traditional coca growing are extensively reviewed, and the data from a survey conducted with 496 farmers in an indigenous community is examined, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the coca-growing problem and to evaluate if social control could potentially influence the scale of coca growing in Peru. The results suggest that social control variables, such as attachment, involvement, and beliefs, seem to limit coca-growing areas. Those factors have been largely overlooked and may offer an opportunity to reduce coca areas if explicitly considered in anti-drug policy design. CITE AS: García-Yi, J. (2014). Social control and as supply-side harm reduction strategies. The case of an indigenous community in Peru. Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, 3 (1): 58-82 Los usos tradicionales de la coca han tenido lugar en Perú y Bolivia durante, al menos, los últimos tres mil años. Las organizaciones internacionales no han tenido éxito para instar la ejecución de las políticas de «cero crecimiento de coca» en esos países. Las estrategias de reducción de daños de la oferta, que se basan en el control social para limitar, aunque no abolir totalmente el cultivo de coca, están siendo implementadas actualmente en Bolivia. En este artículo, se revisan los usos tradicionales que motivan el cultivo de coca; y se analizan los datos de una encuesta realizada a 496 agricultores en una comunidad indígena para proporcionar una visión general del problema cocalero; y se explora si el control social podría, potencialmente, influir en la escala del cultivo de coca en el Perú. Los resultados sugieren que las variables de control social, como el apego, la participación y las creencias limitan el tamaño de las áreas de cultivo de coca. Estos factores, en gran medida, han sido pasados por alto y que pueden ofrecer una oportunidad para reducir las áreas de cultivo de coca si se consideran de manera explícita en el diseño de políticas de control de drogas. CITAR COMO: García-Yi, J. (2014). Social control and as supply-side harm reduction strategies. The case of an indigenous community in Peru. Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, 3 (1): 58-82 |
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Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies |
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DAAD, LACEEP
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2014-05-07
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http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista/article/view/69
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Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo; Vol 3, Issue 1 (2014): January - June 2014; 58-82
Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies; Vol 3, Issue 1 (2014): January - June 2014; 58-82 |
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en
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Este obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. |
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