01 Oct 20 | Webinar
Webinar – How to collect, collate and utilise on-farm data so the entire supply chain benefits
To ensure crop yields are optimised and inputs minimised, food brands and their suppliers need cl...
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.
Why healthy soils mean greater crop yields
This week: Alex Udermann and Mark Gutierrez, farmers from the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, talk with Ian Welsh about how working on improving soil health improves productivity and farm profitability. They share insights on how healthier soils build resilience and cut inputs. And, carbon markets expert and former CEO of Verra, David Antonioli reflects on the evolving role of the markets at t...
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01 Oct 20 | Weekly podcast
Evolving buyer-grower supply chain relationships, and Fairtrade America on cocoa
This week: Some early pointers from Innovation Forum’s new smallholder farmer research group – in...
30 Sep 20 | Podcast
Why the world’s food supply chains remain resilient
Dave MacLennan, CEO of Cargill, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about the evolution of su...
25 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
Incentives for smallholders that help save forests
Golden Agri-Resources head of sustainability implementation Gotz Martin talks about finding solut...
24 Sep 20 | Podcast
Why vibrant rural economies drive agri-sector strength
Ruth Thomas, director of the Global Agribusiness Alliance, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Wels...
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...
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...