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Food and livelihood security: Alternative development in former poppy growing areas in Burma/Myanmar

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The ban on opium cultivation by the government has led to acute food shortages for the ethnic groups in Wa Special Region No. 2 (Myanmar/ Burma). As a consequence of a forced relocation they have lost their traditional coping mechanisms and lack the necessary resources and agricultural land to secure their food and livelihoods.