From Coca to Cocain - Exhibition about myths and alternative development

The online exhibition „From coca to cocaine – the forgotten link in the chain“ shows how “Alternative Development” can open up legal perspectives for smallholder farmers who make up their living from the illicit cultivation of drug crops such as coca or opium poppy.

At the same time, the exhibition clears up prejudices about the drug crop cultivation. Prejudices are, for instance, that drug crops make farmers rich or that the eradication of the plants is sufficient to solve the problem.

So far, the development of alternatives and more generally the understanding for drug crop farmers does not receive sufficient attention compared to repressive measures – only 0.1% of the global development budget is invested in these measures.

The exhibition wants to contribute to this learning. It has been designed on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) by the sector project „Sustainable Rural Areas“ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which technically accompanies several projects in drug crop cultivation countries and advises the Federal Government on the subject.

Visit the online exhibition