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Presence of Illegal Activities

Presence of Illegal Activities · 7.1 Cultivation and Production of Illegal Substances

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1647.1 Cultivation and Production of Illegal Substances

Substitution of Illicit Crops

Does not meet

Does not meet the criterion.

Mexico has national rural-development, agroforestry-support, community-organization, and legal-product commercialization programmes. These interventions may improve rural livelihoods, but the reviewed evidence does not establish that they specifically target producers or plots involving opium poppy, cannabis, or other illicit crops.

No verifiable substitution agreements, illicit-crop baselines, assistance linked to productive transition, plot monitoring, or confirmation of sustained abandonment were identified. Official claims regarding substitution lack sufficient traceability to establish implementation or results.

Sources (8): the documents that support the traffic light
  1. Programa Sembrando Vida | Secretaría de Bienestar - Gob MX (Document · 2024)
  2. Gobierno del Estado de Guerrero. (2024, 20 de noviembre). En Guerrero se ha cultivado cambios y cosechado bienestar con Sembrando Vida en 71 municipios del estado (Regulation or programme)
  3. Presidencia de la República. (2022, 1 de diciembre). Sembrando Vida reduce cultivo de plantas para la fabricación de drogas, resalta presidente (Report)
  4. Secretaría de Bienestar y Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor. (2026, 29 de abril). Firman Profeco y Sembrando Vida convenio para garantizar calidad y precios justos en productos campesinos (Regulation or programme)
  5. Secretaría de Bienestar. (2026, 15 de mayo). Impulsa Sembrando Vida 16 cultivos estratégicos para aumentar ingresos de sembradoras y sembradores (Regulation or programme)
  6. Secretaría de Bienestar. (2026, 28 de marzo). Inicia Sembrando Vida el ciclo agrícola con 427 mil familias campesinas (Report)
  7. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. (2023, 28 de septiembre). Se celebra en México el Segundo Foro de Diálogo Intrarregional sobre Desarrollo Alternativo (Report)
  8. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (s. f.). Alternative Development: Our Work (Regulation or programme)

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Traffic light
Does not meetcoded on 15-09-2026 · Partial
International support
No
Indicator score
0.00 out of a possible 1.25
Weight in the index
0.48 %
What it means
There is no evidence that the criterion is met. Rules.
In the dimension
4 of 26 in Presence of Illegal Activities. See those of Cultivation and Production of Illegal Substances.

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