Fairtrade Fortnight 2010

That the Parliament welcomes the Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 campaign, the Big Swap, from 22 February to 7 March 2010, which encourages shoppers to use their consumer power to swap their usual purchases for the fair trade equivalent; acknowledges the growing range of fair trade goods now available online at http://www.fairtrade.org.uk, in local shops and in supermarkets, from bananas and body wash to wine and bed linen; considers that fair trade has a huge impact on making the world a fairer place by giving developing world producers a better deal for the work that they do; further considers that the Scottish Fair Trade Forum makes an important contribution in highlighting the positive impact that Scots buying fair trade can have on producer countries such as Malawi, and welcomes further efforts towards making Scotland a Fair Trade nation.