How successful have these projects been in terms of reducing coca and as an alternative for the farmers to growing illicit crops?
Using Bolivia as an example: By mid-2002, the economic impact of alternative development in Bolivia was growing and increasingly self-sustaining as its investments began to achieve a certain critical mass. For the first time since 1998, the family income generated by licit products of the farmers began to surpass the income from the production of illicit coca. In 1986, there was about 40,000 hectares of licit crops in a province called Chapare; by 2001, over 120,727 hectares were being cultivated, which is a growth rate of more than 5 thousand hectares per year. The activity of cattle raising has also increased the number of livestock to more than 51,000 head in the region in 2002. The industry of forestry production in the area has also expanded to create more jobs and income for Bolivians. There are also some alternative development projects that are helping these rural farmers register land, so that they have the property rights to the land they are working on. The project, Land Reg
