Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine ... licensing farmers to grow coca instead. In requesting the study of the coca plant at the U.N., President ...

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...

Peru's coca farmers, who grow the bushy plant used to make cocaine, say they want help, too. Prices for coca leaves sold to drug gangs have slumped 70% since Peru went on lockdown last month ...

Swiss police say they have seized 500kg of cocaine from a shipment of coffee that was sent to a Nespresso factory. Workers at the plant in Romont alerted the authorities after finding white powder ...

Coca leaves are the key ingredient in cocaine and Colombia has long been ... and to offer work and good salaries". He said growers needed to be convinced "to switch from sowing marijuana, poppies ...