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.

Risk-proofing agrifood supply chains: demonstrating the business case for regenerative agriculture

As pressure mounts to decarbonise agrifood supply chains and meet Scope 3 targets, the case for regenerative agriculture is clearer than ever. Yet many corporate susta...

14 October 2025 - 14:00

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Food, fashion, and farmers: Finding common ground on regenerative agriculture

While the principles of regenerative agriculture aren't new, it's increasingly emerging as the industry buzzword, particularly in food and fashion.It is celebrated as ...

15 October 2025 - 15:00

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Coffee Landscapes Forum – 10 Years of Conservation International's Sustainable Coffee Challenge

Join Conservation International for the 10-year milestone of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, marking the transition from our community’s first decade of building par...

11 December 2025 - 15:00

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Sustainable palm oil: how buyers and producers can work as true partners

This week: Rob Nicholls, general manager for programmes and projects at palm oil business Musim Mas, and Kaixiang Chin, sustainability manager for Asia at Bunge, talk with Ian Welsh about their joint "train-the-trainer" model that strengthens local capacity and builds long-term resilience for independent smallholders.  Plus: EAT-Lancet warns food systems breaching limits; Net-Zero Banking Allia...

09 Oct 25

Accelerating action on deforestation in commodity supply chains

Many companies, large and small, have made commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supp...

Can brands be blamed for endemic development problems?

Another day, another campaign targeting big business – now it’s been the turn of the chocolate se...

Scaling factory impacts through partnerships and collaboration

In this Innovation Forum webinar, hear an expert panel outline some effective and current collabo...

Big data’s impact on corporate human rights risks

John Morrison, chief executive of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, talks to Innovatio...

Cargill: focus company resources where impact is greatest

Companies need to establish what relevant and challenging goals look like, set targets and then m...

How to connect people with business purpose

Gray argues that overall corporate strategy is becoming increasingly the core focus of employee e...

EICC’s new proactive cross-sector approach to forced labour

The new initiative is designed to facilitate cross-sector collaboration, exporting EICC’s due dil...

New principles to drive tech-based worker engagement

Companies don’t know what is going on in their supply chains on human rights and forced labour, a...

Clarks on the next steps for leather supply chain collaboration

As a byproduct the leather sector’s ability to leverage has traditionally been lessened and there...

Apparel supply chains: why circularity is possible and will come

Eileen Fisher is already collecting previously worn clothing – some of which is then re-sold, som...

The technology that will trace, track and monitor supply chains

There are many benefits of supplier mapping, but what are the key elements in an efficient mappin...

Get beyond tier 1 suppliers to engage with labour risks

Smith, analyst with Ecovadis, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about how companies are now...

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