In January 2016 the Transnational Institute (TNI) gathered a group of approximately 60 farmers
and farmers’ representatives in the Netherlands for the Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited
Plants (GFPPP), facilitating a discussion of their views on and experiences with illicit crop control
policies.
The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and
cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug policy reform in general and were at risk
of being excluded from the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) 2016 on
The World Drug Problem.
The outcome of the deliberations at the GFPPP, titled the “Heemskerk Declaration”, was presented
to the UN through the Civil Society Task Force, and by some representatives of the Forum present
at the UNGASS in New York, between the 19th and 21st of April 2016.
This report presents the discussions at the GFPPP in Heemskerk in detail, supplemented with
images of the dialogue process.
