@inbook{10.7249/j.ctt15sk868.10, ISBN = {9780833090485}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt15sk868.10}, abstract = {In 2013, Afghanistan’s per capita gross domestic product of $679 was in the bottom 7 percent of countries in the world.¹ Economic opportunities for individuals, especially those in remote areas, are limited.Opium poppy is Afghanistan’s most important cash crop. Between 2006 and 2010, an estimated average of 363,000 households, amounting to 12 percent of rural households, farmed opium poppies in Afghanistan each year.² In southern Afghanistan, an average of 219,000 households, over one-half of rural households, grew opium poppy.³In this chapter, we present contextual information on the ground conditions and dynamics that affect decisions to grow opium poppy}, bookauthor = {Victoria A. Greenfield and Keith Crane and Craig A. Bond and Nathan Chandler and Jill E. Luoto and Olga Oliker}, booktitle = {Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan}, pages = {11--38}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Household-Level Conditions and Dynamics}, year = {2015} }