In November 2013, the UN's Afghanistan Opium Survey reported a 36 per cent rise in opium poppy cultivation and a 49 per cent rise in total production over 2012, with a parallel fall of 24 per cent in crop eradication. The report also highlighted how the bulk of opium production took place in the areas in the south and west of the country, where 'insurgency and organised crime networks' dominate. This is perhaps the most striking - but by no means the sole - example of the link between security and organised crime in the contemporary world.
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