The United States Institute of Peace: "Poppy has been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop, boding ill for the economy, poverty and the ban’s future". 🤡
good god, I could not make it beyond one of the first bullet points. basically, one of them implied that the ban on poppies will not improve rural poverty.
because everybody knows how rich rural communities get when the land there is used to grow crops with high value exclusively for export market channels controlled by cartels, gangsters, corrupt institutions, and powerful multinationals.
the PhD that wrote this should get kicked in the mouth every morning for a month.
Completely imperialism brained to the point they ignore the value of growing food cause it has a lesser export value. You should be growing poppies to sell to drug dealers and then using that money to buy food that was farmed somewhere else, just growing food and eating it has become alien to these ghouls.