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

Has business really shifted from the why to the how on sustainability?

Prof David Grayson, campaigner and former director of the Doughty Centre at Cranfield School of M...

Why a zero-tolerance approach to worker recruitment fees is essential

This week: David Pettet, global human rights and sustainable supply chain director at Reckitt, ta...

LandScale: tackling landscape level challenges in Guatemala

Mario Rafael Rodriguez, senior associate for LandScale at the Rainforest Alliance, and José Luis ...

What EU corporate due diligence rules will actually mean for business

Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson talks with Salla Saastamoinen, director for civil and commercial...

Tea sector’s blend of supply chain challenges

This week: Jenny Costelloe, chief executive of the Ethical Tea Partnership, discusses how the sec...

Why there is no such thing as perfect company data

Craig Mills, CEO of Vizzuality, talks with Ian Welsh about how companies are changing the process...

Does a focus on the facts lead to acceptance of gene editing?

Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, director of the Genetic Literacy Projec...

The environmental and human rights legal risks business needs to know about

This week: Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer’s Elizabeth Forster and Innovation Forum’s Bea Stevenson...

SourceUp: connecting landscapes with their markets and buyers

IDH’s Matthew Spencer, Proforest’s Ruth Nussbaum and Conservation International’s John Buchanan t...

Why companies must continue to source from ‘high-risk’ countries

Niels Wielaard, founder of Satelligence, and Ian Welsh, talk about traceability-to-plantation inn...

Is business moving to a ‘just in case’ approach to supply chains?

This week: David Grayson, campaigner and former director of the Doughty Centre at Cranfield Schoo...

Cocoa child labour – how cash transfer schemes can help

Megan Passey, head of knowledge and learning at the International Cocoa Initiative, talks with Ia...

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