DRUGDATA
A dataset on coca bush, opium poppy, and
cannabis cultivation locations throughout the world
Documents:
All documents: DRUGDATA (zip)
Documentation: Coca Bush,
Opium Poppy, and Cannabis (pdf)
Code sheet: DRUGDATA Code Sheet (pdf)
The drug cultivation dataset contains
information on coca bush, opium poppy, and cannabis cultivation throughout the
world.
Given that drug cultivation covers larger
areas the cultivation areas are presented as polygons. The data are stored in shapefile (GIS) format. Three data files are included: one
for each of the drug plants.
In addition to the locational information,
the shapefiles include information on when
commercial, large-scale production in the region started and whether there has
been traditional production for local use prior the more intensive cultivation.
See the Code sheet for further details.
The file for cannabis cultivation includes
only the largest producers for non-domestic markets.
The dataset is accompanied by the document
‘Coca Bush,
Opium Poppy, and Cannabis’ that offer a more detailed overview of
the three cultivated drug plants. It presents shortly the growing conditions
that these plants require as well as listing the major producers and production
areas. It also documents the information included in DRUGDATA and provides the
references used for DRUGDATA.
Please site following article when using the data:
Buhaug,
Halvard & Päivi Lujala, 2005. ‘Accounting for
Scale: Measuring Geography in Quantitative Studies of Civil War’. Political Geography 24:
399-418
Other articles that use the data:
Lujala, Päivi, 2009. ‘Deadly Combat over
Natural Resources: Gems, Petroleum, Drugs, and the Severity of Armed Civil Conflict’.
Journal of Conflict Resolution 53(1): 50-71.
Lujala, Päivi, 2010. ‘The Spoils of
Nature: ’Armed Civil Conflict and Rebel Access to Natural Resources’. Journal of Peace Research 47(1): 15-28.
Contact address: Paivi.Lujala@svt.ntnu.no, Updated:
1.10.2010