Fair Trade in the Highlands and Islands

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the visit of Mr Raymond Kimaro of the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union to Scotland to conduct a tour of the Highlands and Islands promoting fair trade; notes that Mr Kimaro is a world authority in the fair trade movement, having been Chairman of Café Direct and Africa Representative to the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation; welcomes his recent visit to address the Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Fair Trade; looks forward to his visits to Oban, Iona, Skye, Wick, Thurso and Orkney before attending the first Scottish local authority fair trade conference and Scottish Fair Trade Forum AGM in Inverness; believes that fair trade products are a vital tool in eradicating global poverty and promoting a fair and just global trading system by ensuring that producers earn a fair wage, that production methods protect the environment, that child labour is not used and that female producers are treated equally; notes that in the United Kingdom sales of fair trade-branded goods in 2009 grew by 14% to £800 million, demonstrating the public support for this worthwhile movement, and calls on all public bodies in the Highlands and Islands and throughout Scotland to play their part by switching to fair trade products as soon as is practical.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 19 SNP 6 Green 1 LD 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3M-06548 by reference.