This report suggests they could also offer a more secure long-term financial future for the UK's farmers.
Gold, metal, and platinum are sometimes thought to be a more secure long-term investment than keeping your money in the bank.
Since the pay scale for many temporary, travel-oriented jobs falls short of a more secure, long-term job, always have extra money saved to cover unexpected expenses and small luxuries you want to enjoy while traveling.
France, where they also have rent controls and more secure long-term tenancies than we have in the UK, has a growing private rented sector.
In fact, he says, since the government now part-owns the banks, it is in a situation to fix another problem that has dogged British start-up companies: namely, to create more secure long-term investment.
Analysts said the deals were a part of Chinese firms efforts to secure long term supplies of energy resources.
The Treasury must be much more imaginative in helping facilitate new investment vehicles – which could easily raise £100bn or more of secure long-term funds – and ease the revenue squeeze on councils and housing associations for a massive social house building programme.
We believe sustainable investing is a prerequisite to securing long term returns".
In many industries, process innovations play a major role in securing long term profitability.
Single people – both men and women – often had more difficulty getting secure long-term accommodation because they had less income than parents who can access family support payments.
But the experience of the sector also demonstrates a weakness at the heart of businesses setting up in the low-carbon space: the BWEA complains that industry is still looking to the government to create a more secure policy framework so that long-term projects can become profitable.
