and producing essential medicines within Afghanistan at a local level. They purported that village cultivated poppy would be transformed into poppy-based medicines, such as morphine, in Afghan villages. In their dossier, the organisation laid out an integrated control system that combines the involvement of local structures and state authorities such as the police and the Afghan National Army in order to limit diversion. They argued that by making the medicines locally, value is added to the finished product, the proceeds of which will go towards the economic diversification necessary to break ties with the illegal opium industry and eventually phase out opium production. Food aid in Afghanistan The organisation has also carried out some food aid activities in informal internal refugee camps in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand in southern Afghanistan. References External links Foreign policy and strategy think tanks Think tanks established in 2002