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Heterogeneous motivations of households in coca growing regions: the case of an indigenous community in Peru

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  • Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

    (Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade, University of Hannover)

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Coca is a native bush from the Amazon rainforest from which cocaine is extracted. There is a great deal of heterogeneity among coca growers, a fact that national and international organizations have empirically recognized, but have not further addressed in anti-drug policy design. In this article, the decision of farmers on whether to grow coca and on how many coca bushes to cultivate is investigated under homogeneity and heterogeneity assumptions, using as a case study an indigenous community in Peru. The research results significantly support the notion of coca grower heterogeneity. Accordingly, main differences between groups of coca growers were identified, the potential effects of current anti-drug policies in each group were evaluated, and finally differentiated anti-drug policy recommendations were elaborated based on this research results.

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  • Jaqueline Garcia-Yi, 2011. "Heterogeneous motivations of households in coca growing regions: the case of an indigenous community in Peru," Working Papers 201122, Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program, revised 2011.
    • Handle: RePEc:lae:wpaper:201122
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