25 Mar 21 | Podcast
Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes
Reflecting on recent Innovation Forum research, one of the project partners, Silke Peters, team l...
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
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
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
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
19 Mar 21 | Podcast
Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed
Toby Webb speaks with Grant Rosoman, senior forests campaigner at Greenpeace, about the organisat...
19 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
Is smallholder farming really a broken model?
Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation at Golden Agri-Resources, explains why food sy...
18 Mar 21 | Podcast
What’s the solution to the profit pursuit problem?
Business has lost its purpose, says Prof Andy Hoffman from the Ross School of Business at the Uni...
12 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
What will future materials be made from?
This week: Neste’s Lars Börger, Covestro’s Lynette Chung, Unilever’s Marika Lindstrom and Werner ...
11 Mar 21 | Podcast
Organic cotton's sector-changing potential
In the first of a new quarterly podcast series, Textile Exchange CEO La Rhea Pepper talks with In...
05 Mar 21 | Weekly podcast
GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice
This week: Silke Peters from the sustainable agriculture supply chain initiative at GIZ talks abo...
04 Mar 21 | Podcast
How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains
Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, talks with Ian Welsh about the durability of cotton supply cha...
26 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
Will future business leaders use their power differently?
This week: Andy Hoffman, professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, ...
25 Feb 21 | Podcast
Potential labour and human costs of a successful energy transition
Jessie Cato, natural resources and human rights programme manager at the Business and Human Right...
19 Feb 21 | Weekly podcast
How an ecosystems services approach helps all producer communities
This week: Hear Musim Mas’s Olivier Tichet outline his ‘magic ingredients’ for landscape level so...
18 Feb 21 | Podcast
Are financial institutions ignoring deforestation?
Sarah Rogerson and Emma Thomson from Global Canopy talk with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about t...