Heroin Poppy Field in Afghanistan
Heroin Poppy Field in Afghanistan
Description: During U.S. involvement in Afghanistan (2001–2021), vast poppy fields became a defining feature of the rural landscape and a major source of global opium production.
Poppy cultivation funded insurgent groups, criminal networks, and local livelihoods, complicating military and reconstruction efforts.
Efforts to eradicate or replace poppy crops met mixed results, highlighting the deep links between war, poverty, and the drug trade.
Poppy cultivation funded insurgent groups, criminal networks, and local livelihoods, complicating military and reconstruction efforts.
Efforts to eradicate or replace poppy crops met mixed results, highlighting the deep links between war, poverty, and the drug trade.