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...

08 Aug 25

Why palm oil success will mean not having to talk about deforestation

Anita Neville, senior vice president for corporate communications at Golden Agri-Resources, and I...

The rise and rise of supply chain traceability, and what plastic food packaging standards might look like

This week: Dawn Jutla from blockchain technology developers Peer Ledger on how technology is revo...

Why plastic use should be lessened not demonised

Franco Costantini, managing director of Control Union UK talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh ...

Real-time monitoring of palm oil deforestation risks

This week: Niels Wiellard, managing director of Satelligence, on how a new satellite monitoring i...

Why sustainability belongs at the centre of company operations

CB Bhattacharya, professor of sustainability and ethics at the University of Pittsburgh and autho...

Partnerships and incentives for more sustainable palm oil

Emily Kunen from Nestlé, Gotz Martin from Golden Agri-Resources and Róisín Mortimer from Earthwor...

Palm oil traceability and farmer livelihoods, and some reasons to be positive about 2020

This week: Anita Neville, senior vice president for corporate communications at Golden Agri-Resou...

Defining a landscape approach and why it’s so important

Justin Adams, executive director of the Tropical Forest Alliance talks with Innovation Forum’s Ia...

The importance of ‘active listening’ for business planning

At IFC’s manufacturing conference in Morocco, Irache Pardo, finance and treasury director for Spa...

Innovation, technology and industry 4.0: a Mexican case study

Frédéric Garcia, advisor for industry to the head of staff of the president of Mexico, and former...

Accountability Framework initiative: developing corporate deforestation and commodity commitments

In the first of a new podcast series about the Accountability Framework initiative, Rainforest Al...

Business sustainability – why small changes can have big impact

This week: CB Bhattacharya, professor of sustainability and ethics at the University of Pittsburg...

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