Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca leaf in 2023, the report said, up from 230,000 in 2022. That brought last year's potential cocaine production up 53% to 2,644 metric tons, compared ...

Two of the world's biggest cocaine suppliers, Colombia and Bolivia, want the U.N. to remove the coca leaf from its list of dangerous drugs. They argue the leaf has many uses unrelated to narcotics.

Colombia aims to reduce by half its illegal coca leaf plantations by 2022-23. Duque was elected president in August 2018 on the back of a pledge to come down hard on drug-trafficking. das/lv/bc/it ...

An Indigenous business in Colombia, acting, it says, “in defense of the coca leaf,” is asking the government to revoke the beverage giant’s century-old trademark on the word “coca.” ...

Marín-Llanes says that the production of each coca leaf is a resource multiplier. “For each additional 0.025 cents in production costs, between 0.029 and 0.057 additional cents are added to the ...

Colombia and Bolivia will jointly ask the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca leaves from its list of prohibited substances and accept the plant's traditional uses, Colombia ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances ...

Colombian coca leaf farming hit two-decade high in 2023, UN says. By Luis Jaime Acosta. October 18, 2024 11:29 PM UTC Updated October 18, 2024 A deforested area which, according ...

Curtidor and partner Fabiola Piñacué founded Coca Nasa, named for an Indigenous group native to southern Colombia, in 1998. Their aim was to destigmatize the coca leaf, a crop cultivated by ...

BOGOTA - Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by the United ...