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Café, ¿alternativa para la sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito?
[Is Coffee an Alternative to the Substitution of Crops of Illicit Use?]

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  • Juan Sebastián Bobadilla Molina
  • Nicolás Andrés Cabra Ruiz
  • Nicolás Escobar Forero

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One of the main challenges for the consolidation of the Final Agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government has to do with the substitution of illicit crops by others that offer better economic conditions, such as coffee. This paper seeks to answer whether growing coffee is an economically viable alternative for the substitution of illicit crops. For this purpose, quantitative data is used to carry out a comparative analysis between coffee and coca. The results show the strong difficulties faced not only buy coffee but by any other crop, against coca in terms of yields and price. This conditions constitutes a great challenge for the National Government in the consolidation and performance of the substitution of illicit crops.

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  • Juan Sebastián Bobadilla Molina & Nicolás Andrés Cabra Ruiz & Nicolás Escobar Forero, 2019. "Café, ¿alternativa para la sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito? [Is Coffee an Alternative to the Substitution of Crops of Illicit Use?]," Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía 022732, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000176:022732
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
    • J48 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Particular Labor Markets; Public Policy

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