The infrastructure to be built for extraction of our minerals should in turn allow farmers to get their produce to markets, giving them profitable alternatives to poppies and thus cutting the Taliban's financing for terrorist attacks.
Surely, I thought, there must be healthful, sustainable, yet scalable and profitable alternatives to our unsustainable food and agriculture sectors.
Many tribes are turning to the Internet, with online financial services emerging as a profitable alternative to gambling and a critical source of money to meet their shortfalls.
Launched in 1998 and billed as the world's first and only smoke-free ship, the Paradise was a popular and, according to the company, profitable alternative to other ships offering Caribbean itineraries.
In the Chinese province of Yunnan, where harvests were ruined for three years, they planted poppies as a more robust and profitable alternative to rice, which became one of China's main sources of opium, with devastating and enduring human consequences at home and abroad.
Even the shepherds in the remorseless flint plains that border Iraq have found a more profitable alternative to goats: drilling boreholes in preparation for the expected influx of Iraqi refugees.The biggest winner, of course, is the Jordanian government, which is set to receive more than $200m of American military aid a year.
cycleWood Solutions, LLC offers a sustainable and profitable alternative to conventional single-use plastic bags.
Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) products have come into the spotlight for alternative energy carriers as an environmentally benign and highly profitable alternative to petroleum resources.
With directed help, ONS gives the boys a profitable alternative to crime, starting with a monthly paycheck up to $1,000 for staying out of trouble.
Ice was the only profitable alternative to rocks and, as a result, the ice trade from New England could negotiate lower shipping rates than would have been possible from other international locations.
As noted in a 2010 report, "tobacco farming is increasingly considered a profitable alternative to other agricultural crops as it provides a guaranteed, stable market and a steady source of income" [ 35].
