Coca-Cocaine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Liliana M. Dávalos, Ecology and Evolution

Paul Gootenberg, History

Oh happy day! Two specialists in one place!

Drugs!Much of the discussion centers on social issues in consumer countries

Rees, D. 2001 Get Your War On

Drugs come from somewhereProduction, processing, trafficking, War on Drugs have consequences

Leonardo Correa/SIMCI

Environmental issues

Environmental consequences

are vast

Dávalos & Bejarano 2008 State of the Wild

Connects Andean landscapes to global markets

Links migration flows

Commodity chains

To ecosystems

Carbon storage

Biodiversity

Our research

Why do rainforests decline? Three hypotheses

Hamburger! (or steak)!Kaimowitz et al. 2004 CIFOR

Coca!Dávalos et al. 2011 Environ Sci

Technol

Land tenure and property!Hecht 1993 BioScience

Drivers forest loss

Predictions

Hamburger! (or steak)!Kaimowitz et al. 2004 CIFOR

Coca!Dávalos et al. 2011 Environ Sci Technol

Land tenure and property!Hecht 1993 BioScience

+ demand beef !+ beef, + cattle!+ cattle, + pasture!+ pasture, - forest!

+ demand cocaine !+ cocaine, + coca!+ coca, - forest!

+ demand land !+ pasture, + cattle!+ cattle, - forest!

The real drivers of habitat lossDávalos et al. 2009 Int J Drug Pol Dávalos et al. 2014 Biol Cons

Forest, coca nothing Eradicationdecrease

Urbanization &

Development

becomes

Pasture &

Cowsisproperty

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a g e n d a :1:30 Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University - Introductory remarks1:45 Dolors Armenteras & Nelly Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional de

Colombia - Have the illicit crops changed our tropical landscapes? Anoverlook of the land use dynamics in NWAmazonia.

2:15 Diana Bocarejo, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia - Alternativeapproaches to forced eradication: State formation, Sovereignty, andLegal Subjects.

2:45 Adriana Bejarano, University of South Carolina - The hiddenenvironmental costs of illicit crop cultivation in Colombia: an overview.

3:15 Daniel M. Rico, University of Maryland - The paradox of coca cultivationon the Colombian Pacific Coast:More Efforts and More Coca?

3:45 coffee break4:00 Jennifer S. Holmes, Denis J. Dean, University of Texas at Dallas & Liliana

M.Dávalos, Stony Brook University - The geographical signature of aerialeradication: how effective has the eradication program been?

4:30 H. Leonardo Correa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,Colombia -The coca growing region: Change and stability.

5:00 Maria-Clara Torres, Stony Brook University - Coca and state formationin Putumayo (Colombia).

5:30 Liliana M.Dávalos - Concluding remarks5:45 reception

a g e n d a :1:30 Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University - Introductory remarks1:45 Dolors Armenteras & Nelly Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional de

Colombia - Have the illicit crops changed our tropical landscapes? Anoverlook of the land use dynamics in NWAmazonia.

2:15 Diana Bocarejo, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia - Alternativeapproaches to forced eradication: State formation, Sovereignty, andLegal Subjects.

2:45 Adriana Bejarano, University of South Carolina - The hiddenenvironmental costs of illicit crop cultivation in Colombia: an overview.

3:15 Daniel M. Rico, University of Maryland - The paradox of coca cultivationon the Colombian Pacific Coast:More Efforts and More Coca?

3:45 coffee break4:00 Jennifer S. Holmes, Denis J. Dean, University of Texas at Dallas & Liliana

M.Dávalos, Stony Brook University - The geographical signature of aerialeradication: how effective has the eradication program been?

4:30 H. Leonardo Correa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,Colombia -The coca growing region: Change and stability.

5:00 Maria-Clara Torres, Stony Brook University - Coca and state formationin Putumayo (Colombia).

5:30 Liliana M.Dávalos - Concluding remarks5:45 reception

Coca symposium!

All coca, all the time

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBwwo6ogoqCluyqFs6hxo7PWQpaRmuEG

Coca symposium resultsRenewed understanding of forest fragmentation process

Issues with eradicationUltimately, coca is about human agents, not ecology

What is coca cultivation about?

Economic development & livelihoods (or their absence)

Modernization

Commodities

Land tenure

Drug policy:

intended

unintended