Supposedly, compensation for the loss of this profitable crop is to come through alternative development schemes.
Neither is it easy to grow other crops in the Yungas, where alternative development has already been tried, unsuccessfully.
You are right that replicating this success in Yungas, where alternative development projects are also essential, will not be easy.
Experience shows that alternative development works only where it goes hand in hand with security and transport links to markets.
Officials in charge of alternative development stress that they do not promise the farmer the same kind of income as coca offers.
By the time the brigade starts to tackle the smaller, peasant-owned coca fields, officials say that alternative development projects should be in place.
If alternative development is ever to work, it will be there.
It wants the army to withdraw from a town near San Vicente, and consumer countries to pay for an alternative development programme and tourist centre there.
Hugo Cabieses, an adviser to farmers in Peru's coca areas, argues that alternative development can work only if it is linked to government price supports and subsidised credit.
Since then, officials have stressed voluntary eradication and alternative development.
"Those who will be most hurt by the Bolivian government's decision are the Bolivian citizens who have benefited from our collaborative work on education, agriculture, health, alternative development, and the environment, " it said in a statement.
"There was a sense with the donor community, as well as the government, that this particular natural resource was something that was so attractive, desirable and generally worth protection that it needed to be made an example of, " says Loren Stoddard, who directs USAID's office of alternative development and agriculture in Afghanistan.
He said the local enterprise network could be abolished with alternative economic development offices set up in council buildings.
This was put in place to encourage alternative energy development and installation.
But our poll question included only a straight up choice without pointing out any specific spending programs like infrastructure, school renovations, or alternative energy development.
Chu, who turns 65 this month, was a leading advocate in the Obama administration for alternative energy development, making him a target of the fossil fuel industry and its conservative supporters in Congress.
The development of alternative water supplies was repeatedly thwarted because counties and cities could not agree how to share the cost.
For Oracle and Salesforce.com, the approaches represent dramatically different visions that go far beyond alternative approaches to applications development and IT strategy.
The country has become a leading centre for the development of alternative fuel technologies in recent years with the support of the Welsh Assembly Government.
Democrat Jay Inslee of Washington brought along charts to show how little the U.S. government is spending these days on alternative energy research and development.
Are high carbon prices necessary to guarantee development of alternative sources?
The former president also favors government spending, on infrastructure, student loans, job training, manufacturing, broadband, high-speed rail, and development of alternative energy sources like biofuel, solar and wind.
He currently works as an Independent consultant focusing on the areas of health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world.
So does agriculture offer an alternative path of economic development?
And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long-term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.
Despite increased corporate engagement in all levels of energy security and sustainability efforts, the state plays a disproportionate role in shaping the form and development of alternative energy technologies due to the significant technological and financial needs underpinning their growth.
FORBES: Alternative Energy And Global Energy Security In Aftermath Of Rio+20
About 52 percent believed that national regulations over a type of gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " should be enacted, while 51 percent said the government should continue to subsidize the development of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Human emigration caused by overall environmental degradation (unsustainable use of water and biological resources, unsustainable tourism) is now being addressed through a variety of pilot projects such as sustainable pasture management, ecotourism, the creation of fishing and hunting farms, and the development of alternative power sources.
He's pursuing returns he thinks will exceed U.S. markets by at least 15 percentage points but also hoping to spread the message that the free flow of private equity and venture capital to bright entrepreneurial firms in Africa can be a superior alternative to the traditional development funds funneled through the likes of the World Bank.
Despite the ambiguous attitudes toward alternative energy technologies, their development has altered the energy security equation.
FORBES: Alternative Energy And Global Energy Security In Aftermath Of Rio+20
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