Colombia’s program to substitute crops used for illegal purposes: Its impact on security and development
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This article explores the relationship between security and development in peacebuilding policies in post-accord Colombia. It focuses particularly on Colombia’s efforts to substitute crops used for illegal purposes with alternative forms of sustainable livelihood in order to curb what is perceived as one of the biggest threats to both security and development in the country. It argues that continued violence creates considerable obstacles for local peacebuilding actors trying to pursue security and development simultaneously. It significantly counteracts and undermines the successful outcomes of peacebuilding, turning security and development programmes against each other and blocking each other’s success.
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That has included protected-area incursions such as in the Nukak Makú reserve, where 'narco-cattle' operations have supplanted coca fields.
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From Beyond the “supply chain” framing: Cattle ranching as a vanishing mediator of deforestation and dispossession in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon (2026) · cites this paper as Nilsson and Marín, 2021
The Introduction says illegal crops are grown in or near protected natural parks, supporting the general point about protected-area incursions. It does not mention the Nukak Makú reserve or say that ‘narco-cattle’ operations supplanted coca fields there; searches for those terms returned no matching passage. No page number was provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Bastos Lima, M. G., & López, J. (2026) · World Development · doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107532
- Authors
- Nilsson, M., & Marín, L. G.
- Affiliations
- Linnaeus University (SE)
- UBPD, Arauca, Colombia
- Corresponding author
- Nilsson, Manuela
- ORCID
- Nilsson, Manuela
- Venue
- Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-05-17
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 309-326
- ISSN
- 1750-2977 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-2985
- OpenAlex
- W3163044079
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 2.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Vetenskapsrådet (2015-03611)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Peacebuilding and International Security
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Keywords
- crop substitution, peacebuilding, security-development nexus, post-conflict Colombia, FARC peace agreement, illicit crops, sustainable livelihoods, armed conflict, development programmes
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