Café, ¿alternativa para la sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito?

Is Coffee an Alternative to the Substitution of Crops of Illicit Use?

Juan Sebastián Bobadilla Molina, Nicolás Andrés Cabra Ruiz and Nicolás Escobar Forero

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: One of the main challenges for the consolidation of the Final Agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government has to do with the substitution of illicit crops by others that offer better economic conditions, such as coffee. This paper seeks to answer whether growing coffee is an economically viable alternative for the substitution of illicit crops. For this purpose, quantitative data is used to carry out a comparative analysis between coffee and coca. The results show the strong difficulties faced not only buy coffee but by any other crop, against coca in terms of yields and price. This conditions constitutes a great challenge for the National Government in the consolidation and performance of the substitution of illicit crops.

Keywords: peace; illegal crops substitution; coffee; productivity; cocaine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 H56 J43 J48 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2019-05
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