An evening of celebration as we announce the winners of the Scottish Fair Trade Awards 2021.

We will also hear from:

Jenny Gilruth MSP, Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development

Fairtrade delegates at COP26:

Muniraju Shivanna – sugar farmer, India, and Fairtrade regional board member

Muniraju Shivanna is a sugar farmer and board member of the Network of Asia and Pacific Producers (NAPP), where he represents 284 producer organisations across 20 countries, supporting more than 260,000 farmers and workers. He is the NAPP board’s focal point for climate change projects. He has initiated various projects for producers including a carbon and water footprint project, as well as the YICMBR project, involving youth in the monitoring system for sugar cooperatives in India.

Bismark Kpabitey – cocoa farmer, Ghana, and climate change project lead

Bismark Kpabitey is a cocoa farmer from the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union. He is also a lead trainer for dynamic agroforestry under the Alliances for Sankofa project, funded by Co-op, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa and Danish International Development Agency. Having adopted dynamic agroforestry farming himself, he has spearheaded an initiative aimed at encouraging the older generation to register land to allow next generation farmers to be engaged in dynamic agroforestry farming, in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

In the meantime, if you have questions, please contact Catherine on communities@sftf.org.uk

We would like to thank South Lanarkshire Council, Scotmid and the Energy Agency for their sponsorship of these awards.