Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in
Colombia
Released by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs
September 2002
Aerial Eradication and Alternative Development
The Kenneth M. Ludden Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2002 (P.L. 107-115) (the FY 2002 FOAA)
stipulates that
"…such funds may not be made
available for such purposes after six months from the date of enactment of
this Act unless alternative development programs have been developed, in
consultation with communities and local authorities in the departments in
which such aerial fumigation is planned, and in the departments in which such
aerial fumigation is has been conducted such programs are being
implemented…"
The attached chart denotes, by department, where aerial spraying of
coca has taken place or is anticipated during calendar year 2002. In each of
those departments except Antioquia, alternative development programs have
been developed in consultation with communities and local authorities in
those departments. In the department of Antioquia, the alternative
development project is under negotiation. In February 2002 spray planes
treated approximately 1,620 hectares of coca in Antioquia. The Embassy and
the Colombian National Police have agreed that no further spraying will take
place until an alternative development project is being implemented.
The executing agency for each
alternative development program is listed in column four. In the departments
where the majority of the spraying has taken place in 2002 - Putumayo,
Caqueta, Norte de Santander and Nariño - multiple alternative development
projects are currently being implemented simultaneously.
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Colombia: Aerial
Eradication and Alternative Development |
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by Department |
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Department |
Spraying 2002 |
AD Program |
AD Executing Organization |
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Amazonas |
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Antioquia |
X |
X |
PADF |
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Arauca |
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Atlantico |
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Bolivar |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," PADF |
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Boyaca |
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Caldas |
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Caqueta |
X |
X |
PNDA, ODCCP, ACDI/VOCA |
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Casanare |
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Cauca |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," ACDI/VOCA |
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Cesar |
X |
X |
FIP - "Campo en Accion" |
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Choco |
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Cordoba |
X |
X |
Red de Solidaridad Social (RSS) |
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Cundinamarca |
X |
X |
FIP - "Campo en Accion" (approved) |
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Guainia |
X |
X |
PNDA |
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Guaviave |
X |
X |
PNDA |
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Huila |
X |
X |
PNDA, ACDI/VOCA |
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La Guajira |
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Magdalena |
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Meta |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," ODCCP |
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Narino |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," ODCCP, ACDI/VOCA |
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Norte de Santander |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion" |
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Putumayo |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," USACE |
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Quindio |
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Risaralda |
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Santander |
X |
X |
FIP - "Campo en Accion" |
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Sucre |
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X |
FIP - "Campo en Accion" (approved) |
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Tolima |
X |
X |
PNDA, FIP - "Campo en Accion," ACDI/VOCA |
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Valle de Cauca |
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X |
FIP - "Campo en Accion" (approved) |
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Vaupes |
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Vichada |
X |
X |
PNDA |
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PNDA (formerly PLANTE): GOC's National Plan of Alternative
Development |
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FIP - "Campo en Accion" (GOC's Popular Investment Fund:
"Countryside in Action") |
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ODCCP (Office of Crime Control and Crime Prevention - formerly UN
Drug Control Program): livestock program |
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ACDI/VOCA (Agricultural Cooperative Development
International/Volunteer Overseas Cooperation in Agriculture): specialty
coffee program |
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PADF (Panamerican Development Foundation): income generation program
(under negotiation) |
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USACE (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers): infrastructure development |
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