Field Work

UK

• Responding to Risk and Uncertainty: Understanding the Nature of Change in the Rural Livelihoods of Opium Poppy Growing Households in the 2007/08 Growing Season, July 2008.

  

• Beyond the Metrics: Understanding the Nature of Change in the Rural Livelihoods of Opium Poppy Growing Households in the 2006/07 Growing Season.

  

• Exploring the ‘Shades of Grey’: An Assessment of the Factors Influencing Decisions to Cultivate Opium Poppy in 2005/06 A Report for the Afghan Drugs Inter Departmental Unit of the U K Government, February 2006.

  

• What is Driving Opium Poppy Cultivation? The Pressures to Reduce Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan in the 2004/05 Growing Season. A Report for the Afghan Drugs Inter Departmental Unit of the UK Government. March 2005.

  

• What is Driving Opium Poppy Cultivation? Decision Making Amongst Opium Poppy Cultivators in Afghanistan in the 2003/4 Growing Season’ by David Mansfield. A paper for the UNODC/ONDCP Second Technical Conference on Drug Control Research, 19-21 July 2004.

  

  GTZ

• Governance, Security and Economic Growth: The Determinants of Opium Poppy Cultivation in the Districts of Jurm and Baharak in Badakhshan.

  

• Diversity and Dilemma: Understanding Rural Livelihoods and Addressing the Causes of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Laghman, Eastern Afghanistan.

  

• Pariah of Poverty? The opium ban in the province of Nangarhar in the 2004/05 growing season and its impact on rural livelihood strategies.

  

• The Economic Superiority of Illicit Drug Production: Myth and Reality. Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan.

  

  AREU

• Case Study Series, 'Resurgence and Reductions:Explanations for Changing Levels of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor in 2006-07'.

  

• Case Study Series, 'Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor'. This report is one of seven multi-site case studies undertaken during the first stage of AREU's three-year study "Applied Thematic Research into Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy", December 2006

  

  AKDN

• ‘Governance, Security and Economic Growth: The Determinants of Opium Poppy Cultivation in the Districts of Jurm and Baharak in Badakhshan’. A Report for GTZ/AKDN by David Mansfield, February 2007.

  

• ‘Coping Strategies, Accumulated Wealth and Shifting Markets: The Story of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Badakhshan 2000-2003’ by David Mansfield. A Report for the Agha Khan Development Network, January 2004.

  

  UNODC

• Strategic Study #1: Preliminary Report, June 1998. An Analysis of the Process of Expansion of Opium Poppy Cultivation to New Districts in Afghanistan.

  

• Strategic Study #2: Final Report, October 1998. The Dynamics of the Farmgate Opium Trade and the Coping Strategies of Opium Traders.

  

• Strategic Study #3: Preliminary Report, January 1999. The Role of Opium as a source of Informal Credit.

  

• Strategic Study #4: Final Report, June 1999. Access to Labour: The Role of Opium in the Livelihood Strategies of Itinerant Harvesters Working in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

  

• Strategic Study #9: Final Report, February 2003. Opium Poppy Cultivation in a Changing Policy Environment: Farmers’ Intentions for the 2002/03 Growing Season.