For developing countries, producing organic crops may be a chance to cut pollution and costly agrochemicals, and to break into otherwise tight export markets. Specialist crops or manufactured goods produced in an environmentally friendly manner may find a market in developed countries and attract enough profit for small-scale local producers to pay for transport and other costs, and still make a reasonable return. Much of the progress made in greening business is focused on the corporate sector, and care must be taken to prevent the small-business sector being overlooked. The manufacturing activity in developing countries is commonly undertaken by small-scale family businesses, shop-houses and workshops. These small enterprises are scattered amongst housing, difficult to monitor – indeed, are frequently illegal – and usually have little or nothing in the way of resources for environmental care, nor the ability to pay much if caught misbehaving (see Figure 10.1). The problem is not just urban and peri-urban manufacturing – in many rural areas of developing countries, small-scale mining operations are a problem. Smallscale commerce is little unionised, and often employs women and children and the elderly, groups which are especially vulnerable to workplace risks such as use of toxic compounds, inadequate safety clothing, solvent-based glues, welding equipment, cutting tools and so on. Business, whether small-scale or large, must care for the surrounding environment and the conditions its workers operate in; achieving that in developing countries can be a problem, as the Bhopal disaster showed. It helps if authorities adopt a precautionary principle approach.