Its spathes are like the prickly pear .

Its spathes are like the prickly pear .

In such a prickly world, no country would dare aggression.

Poppy Power

Orangutans have been observed using sticks to pry nutritious seeds from prickly.

Afghan farmer in poppy field.

And China will remain prickly as long as it fears protectionism or a new containment strategy.

Poppy cultivators who willingly submitted poppy seed to the authorities were given support for alternative cash crops under the New Destiny Project launched in April 2002.

Many, particularly in the West, would like to see Putin and his prickly, anti Western authoritarianism pass from the scene.

Domestic water was supplied by two wells dug within the village and the primary agricultural crops were grain and prickly pears.

But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.

Thanks to its Anti Narcotics Force, Pakistan was a poppy free country.

The eradication of poppy fields should be seen in this larger context.

The Special Rapporteur welcomes the steady and remarkable reduction in opium poppy cultivation.

Some speakers expressed concern about the increased level of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Some speakers expressed concern about the increased level of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.

Considerably more assistance needs to reach farmers directly as a disincentive for poppy cultivation.

Putting pressure on the poppy farmers in Afghanistan alone will not solve the problem.

Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.

We also endorse the efforts made by the Government of Afghanistan and the international community to end poppy cultivation, to build relevant judicial and police capacity and to provide sustainable alternative livelihoods for those engaged in poppy cultivation.

The build up of the Afghan army and police has lagged. The poppy crop has grown.

And in 1921, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in a case involving Prickly Pear that the folks who were there first had the first, or senior water rights.

Reference was made to the annual surveys conducted by UNODC of opium poppy and coca bush cultivation.

It was emphasized that the sustainability of such eradication efforts should be ensured and that particular efforts were needed to alleviate the poverty of former opium poppy growers, in particular during the transitional period, after they had given up opium poppy cultivation.

Such programmes or plans covered cannabis in 32 States, opium poppy in 19 and coca bush in 7.

Urges all the Governments of countries where opium poppy has not been cultivated for the licit production of opiate raw materials, in the spirit of collective responsibility, to refrain from engaging in the commercial cultivation of opium poppy, in order to avoid the proliferation of supply sites

Nor can it afford to alienate its largest trading partner, a neighbor and an emerging global superpower, which is known to be prickly over any presumed slights to its sovereignty over Tibet.

Indeed, the international community s methods of fighting the insurgency and eradicating poppy crops have actually helped the insurgents gain power.

There remains a need to secure a sustained decrease in opium poppy cultivation, production and trafficking into 2006 and beyond.

These will contribute to sustaining the remarkable decreases in opium poppy cultivation in the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar.

Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively.

We are pleased to have been able to achieve a 21 per cent reduction in opium poppy cultivation in the current year.

We have also communicated our agreement to take up a pilot project on community development to wean farmers away from poppy cultivation.

UNODC continued to focus assistance on providing sustainable livelihood schemes to former coca leaf and opium poppy growers in the Andean region.

This agreement includes including collaborating or not with the Taliban, cooperating with the Coalition forces, accepting or refusing poppy eradication in a village.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has undertaken a rapid assessment survey of the poppy planting trends, to be published shortly.

So for me, a well crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated.

Coca surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru opium poppy surveys in Afghanistan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar and a cannabis survey in Morocco.

The Afghan Government, in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has taken important steps this year in reducing opium poppy cultivation.

If active intervention on law enforcement coupled with effective alternative livelihoods assistance is not provided on an urgent basis, they may return to cultivating poppy.

Several speakers referred to the sustained reduction of the illicit cultivation of coca bush and opium poppy in the Andean subregion and in South East Asia.

Several speakers referred to the sustained reduction of the illicit cultivation of coca bush and opium poppy in the Andean subregion and in South East Asia.

In South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, sustainable livelihood projects and programmes will continue to be developed and implemented in the opium poppy growing areas.

With streams and rivers drying up because of over usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century old tale of Prickly Pear Creek.

Recognizing the strong and continuing commitment made by the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan at the institutional, legal and administrative levels to eliminate opium poppy cultivation by 2013,