The best Malawi has to offer
27 Oct 2007
From Herald Scotland
Tea, vodka, jewellery, safaris: Rebecca McQuillan finds out how Scots and Africans will benefit from the fair-trade foundations to be forged this week.
Exclusive Malawian tea, coffee, tableware and gifts could soon be widely available in Scottish stores, thanks to a major trade fair in Glasgow.
Trade Connections, which will take place at the SECC on Thursday, is an opportunity for 20 Malawian producers to present their goods and services to Scottish buyers from large chains and independent stores.
Tea, coffee, sugar, gin, macadamia nuts, chilli sauce, crafts and tourism-related material will be on display. There will be such Malawian household names as Chombe tea, which accounts for 65% of market share in the southern African country, plus Satemwa fair-trade tea, Mzuzu coffee, which sells the produce of five farming cooperatives, Dream Craft jewellery, Dedza pottery and Nyasa Lodges bespoke safari holidays.