I can live with that. Like an 8x10 Sisal.

Some developing countries lost their sisal market to synthetic fibres and sugar to artificial sweeteners.

There was another programme in the United Republic of Tanzania, using sisal waste to generate power.

Before independence Angola was sufficient in terms of food and a large exporter of agricultural products, including coffee, sisal, cotton, corn, fruits, cassava and others.

In Brazil's case, high-risk child labour occurs in the rural areas, in charcoal kilns, quarries, sisal processing, sugar cane agribusiness and salt extraction.

The centres have initiated work for the cleaner production and marketing of sisal, henequen, botanical and bio-pesticides and non-woody fibrous material.

By 1992, real export prices of coffee and cocoa had fallen by 69 per cent since the early 1980s, palm oil by 49 per cent and sisal and cotton by 47 per cent.

The Programme covered broadly five areas: commodity price stabilization (with a focus on ten core commodities: cocoa, coffee, copper, cotton, jute, rubber, sisal, sugar, tea and tin); market access (to supplies and markets for importing and exporting countries, respectively); processing in developing countries; marketing and distribution systems; and improving the competitiveness of natural vis-à-vis synthetics.

The promotion of safer alternatives and substitutes to asbestos (e.g., for cement sheets that could include polyvinyl alcohol and cellulose fibre-cement, polypropylene and cellulose fibre-cement, bamboo fibre-cement, and other cellulose fibres such as eucalyptus, bagasse, sisal; for roofing tiles it could include “micro-concrete tiles”, which are easily used in rural areas, vegetable fibres and asphalt, clay roofing tiles, galvanized iron roofing (zinc-coated steel), cement reinforced with recycled toothpaste tubes, high-density polyethylene pipe or polyvinyl chloride pipes; Environmentally sound waste disposal practices;