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

Shining a spotlight: food sector still lacks progress on the ground

Five years on from the Behind the Brands campaign, Oxfam America’s Matt Hamilton talks with Ian W...

Real rural resilience: How to connect smallholder farmers directly to global markets

Innovation Forum’s “Innovation Accelerator” action research programme recently published ground-b...

How the right data can help producers access carbon credits

This week: Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, talks about the challenges for producers to be able ...

Beefing up approaches to cattle methane emissions

Cargill’s sustainability director for animal nutrition and health, Heather Tansey, talks with Inn...

Route to net zero: why vehicle electrification is the vital spark

This week: To eliminate emissions in operations – and to tackle scope 3 supply chain emissions – ...

Palm oil: it’s all about viable producer communities

Gotz Martin from Golden Agri-Resources catches up with Ian Welsh about some of the big palm oil s...

Deforestation risks: much more than just putting out fires

This week: Simon Hall, senior manager for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildli...

Chemical complexity: Why we need to move beyond organic versus synthetic

Jon Entine, who leads the Genetic Literacy Project, a science communication non-profit, joins Inn...

Why brands struggle to translate global goals into local progress

This week: Oxfam America’s Matt Hamilton discusses the conclusions from the new Shining a Spotlig...

Fifty shades of green: the unintended consequences of planting trees

In the first of an occasional podcast series, sustainability expert Simon Lord and Innovation For...

How Cargill cuts methane from cattle supply chains

This week: Heather Tansey, sustainability director for animal nutrition and health at Cargill, ta...

What does the roadmap to regenerative apparel look like?

Jeff Tkach, chief impact officer at the Rodale Institute, and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talk a...

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Scope 3 and climate
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