#Cocoa production plays a crucial role in #AlternativeDevelopment across Latin America, offering farming communities in countries like Peru 🇵🇪 and Colombia 🇨🇴 a sustainable and legal alternative to illicit coca cultivation.

It is no longer #coca, it is #cocoa! @lokfoods #AlternativeDevelopment #chocolate is now available in 15 outlets in #Vienna #Austria! . Lök collaborates with 1.300 families in #Colombia 🇨🇴, bringing you high-end chocolate with notes of cane sugar, malt, nuts, and vanilla.

This SENAD (@mjspgov), CDESC and @UNODC study launched yesterday on #WorldDrugDay details #Brazil's 🇧🇷 (@govbr) exciting rise as a key country implementing tailored and sustainable #AlternativeDevelopment. 🔗Learn more (the study is in Portuguese):

Jean-Pierre Blanc, Managing Director of @UNODC's partner @CafesMalongo🇫🇷 recently visited the #AlternativeDevelopment program in Shan State in Myanmar🇲🇲, where it is working with local communities to produce arabica shan mountain coffee - a coffee for #peace and #biodiversity!

In 2024 100,000 families worldwide benefited from @UNODC’s #AlternativeDevelopment technical assistance. Read about the case studies in 🇨🇴🇧🇴🇱🇦 and🇦🇫 in our Annual Report 2024 here:

Massive scale-up of #AlternativeDevelopment support is needed to mitigate the consequences of the #opiumban and to ensure transition to sustainable licit livelihoods

@UNODC and @UNIDO are working together to support Afghan farming communities switch from #opium poppies to the sustainable production of #cotton🌱 as part of #AlternativeDevelopment in #Afghanistan.

#AlternativeDevelopment brings sustainable solutions to rural communities. @UNODC supports countries to design & implement effective programmes based on evidence-based 🔎 interventions. Learn more 👉

Ahead of #WorldDrugDay, @UNODC_COAFG invited #AlternativeDevelopment MSMEs and vocational skills programme beneficiaries to join a week-long bazaar at UNOCA, organized by UNAMA — a strong step toward promoting licit livelihoods and supporting recovery.

General success factor #4 from our @UNODC Practical Guide on #AlternativeDevelopment and the #Environment: Land ownership boosts environmental sustainability & access to credit. It also enables #CarbonCredits , #PES, organic farming and other instruments:

General success factor #1 from our @UNODC Practical Guide on #AlternativeDevelopment and the #Environment: Make sure that people are at the heart of programming:

General success factor #3 from our @UNODC Practical Guide on #AlternativeDevelopment and the #Environment: Long-term #commitment. It sounds so simple, but it is often the factor that is missing:

General success factor #2 from our @UNODC Practical Guide on #AlternativeDevelopment and the #Environment: Help people to help themselves:

@UNODC's #WorldDrugReport 2025 reminds us that drug policy responses can have a positive but also a negative impact on the #environment. This is important for #AlternativeDevelopment as crops or livelihoods introduced as part of interventions can have a large carbon footprint.

Happy International Tea Day! 🍵. Our #AlternativeDevelopment programme in Myanmar is empowering local farmers to switch from illicit crops to tea production. This initiative has resulted in three unique tea products. Discover more:

🌱 #AlternativeDevelopment isn't just switching crops. It involves creation of market-driven products, entrepreneurship support, civil society involvement & preservation of environment 🌏🌿. See more from Thierry ⤵️. #CND66

#alternativedevelopment experiment number [next in sequence] - I've lost count!. On 10th November I collected leaves from a patch of creeping buttercups and chopped them up. They've been in a jug of rainwater since then. It's showing signs of working (no other ingredients).

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay!. #AlternativeDevelopment projects can only be #sustainable if they are also #environmentally sustainable. Read about it in our @UNODC Practical Guide on Alternative Development and the #environment:

Continuing on with some #alternativedevelopment stuff. I put a bit of sodium carbonate into the water the olives came out of. It turns out the olive water will develop. I'm not sure if that's down to the olives, the citric acid they put in it or the lactic acid. Maybe all three!