16 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
How to get closer to suppliers to tackle child labour
This week: Elaine McKay, international affairs director at JTI, talks with Innovation Forum’s Tob...
Innovation Forum Podcast
Innovation Forum hosts a weekly podcast along with regular interviews with business leaders in sustainability. Each week, we summarise the latest sustainability news and announcements, and get the views of leading experts on business critical issues. Widely regarded as one of the best sustainability podcasts around, stay tuned for regular insights, debate and analysis.
INC-5: do we have the global plastic treaty we need?
The rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution poses a significant global challenge, adversely affecting environmental, social economic and health aspects of sust...
11 December 2024 - 13:00
EUDR unpacked #2: coffee and cocoa supply chains under the lens
The likely postponement of the EUDR deadline offers coffee and cocoa supply chains more time to comply, but what do smallholder farmers think of this delay? This webin...
12 December 2024 - 13:00
EUDR unpacked #3: palm and soy plantations under the lens
With the EUDR deadline now potentially extended, large-scale palm and soy plantations have until December 2025 (or later for smaller operators) to ensure compliance. W...
17 December 2024 - 13:00
Understanding the opportunities from ethical trade practices
This week: Giles Bolton, executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the shifting ethical trading and business and human rights risks and challenges. They discuss why they are getting the board room attention now that has perhaps been lacking in the past. Plus: the European Council pushes back on the “no-risk” amendment to the European Uni...
21 Nov 24
10 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
Innovative finance for critical agri-SMEs
Ruth Thomas, director of the Global Agribusiness Alliance, explains why agri-sector SMEs need bet...
09 Sep 20 | Podcast
How to get beyond commodity silo thinking in a landscape
Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC, talks with Ian Welsh about why it’s important for smallholder to be a...
03 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
Cargill’s Dave MacLennan on the dramatic evolution of sustainable business
This week: CEO of Cargill Dave MacLennan talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about key supply...
02 Sep 20 | Podcast
How smallholder farmer resilience drives market access and income
Alison Ward, chief executive of CottonConnect, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about why ...
27 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
Why focus on best practice is the route to market access for farmers
This week: Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC, on how taking a landscape approach to cooperation can bene...
20 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
Smallholder farm living incomes, and Atlantic plastic pollution crisis
This week: Yuca Waarts from Wageningen University on the business interventions that can really h...
20 Aug 20 | Podcast
Can we feed the world while saving the planet?
Mariko Thorbecke, senior sustainability consultant and food sector lead at Quantis, discusses wit...
19 Aug 20 | Podcast
What a context-based approach means for corporate water targets
Cargill’s global water lead Truke Smoor explains to Ian Welsh how the company established its new...
14 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
How smallholder farmers can develop financial resilience and new market linkages
This week: Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, on challenges for smallholder farmers emerging from...
13 Aug 20 | Podcast
Why better data is the key to regenerative agriculture
Franco Costantini, managing director Control Union UK, talks with Ian Welsh about why a shift to ...
23 Jul 20 | Weekly podcast
Cargill’s context-based water targets, and natural climate agriculture solutions
This week: Cargill’s Truke Smoor explains the motivation and science behind the company’s newly a...