Miscellaneous Chabot, P. 2004 RALF, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, 34 pp. This research project proposal document was submitted to the RALF Project Review Panel. There have been repeated efforts to identify the crop that can serve as an
alternative to opium production but the results have been modest at best. With this in mind,
Mercy Corps, CAZS and the Provincial Departments of MAAH in Helmand and Kandahar will
adopt a decentralised and atomised strategy, initiating and testing a large number and variety
of related small projects to ascertain which may provide effective alternative livelihoods to the
production of opium poppy. RARE will work to address issues related to knowledge and
information and the local economy as well as export and social issues, thereby attacking the
current dependence on opium poppy on a number of key fronts. This project was selected for funding, commencing July 2004.
An introductory presentation is also available for this project.