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Hired farm hands pick the last of the poppy crop in an undisclosed field near Kandahar City, Afghanistan on on Friday May 9, 2008.
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

Open quoteThe fact that many areas vulnerable to famine have reduced or rejected [opium] poppy farming is an added irony.Close quote

  • THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE,
  • in a comment from a briefing paper released Oct. 31, that states 8.4 million Afghans, up to a third of the population, could face famine this winter
| Source: The Guardian