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From the guardian article you cite: >About 400,000 households depend on the coca crop to get by, but in departments such as Cauca in central Colombia the price
by InSteady 3y ago
From the guardian article you cite:
>About 400,000 households depend on the coca crop to get by, but in departments such as Cauca in central Colombia the price for coca base – the first step in the production of cocaine – has almost halved from £0.60 ($0.75) a gram to about £0.35.
As mentioned in this BusinessInsider article, the Columbian government has moved away from targeting growers and is instead targeting labs and exporters. Seems like a simple supply and demand problem that is hitting the small farmers.