Innovation Forum - Sustainable Landscapes Conference

This forum will bring together each of the key themes and players from our previous events on smallholder farmer resilience, deforestation and sustainable agriculture. The Sustainable Landscapes Conference will tackle the biggest issues faced by business in ensuring sustainable and resilient agricultural supply chains.

Land

This track will highlight leading sustainable agriculture practices and explore initiatives driving climate resilience within supply chains

Forests

This track will break down the challenges faced in removing deforestation from company supply chains, and look at the steps necessary for business to reach 2020 targets

Farmers

This track will look at the role of business in building resilience in smallholder supply chains and assess the future of smallholder farming as a viable business model

Tech & Innovation

This track will explore the latest innovations and solutions in agri-tech and how can these be leveraged effectively to build sustainable landscapes

The speakers

Sarah Schaefer

Unilever

Group Policy Director

Adrian Greet

Mars

Global Sustainability Programme Director

Simon Lord

Sime Darby

Chief Sustainability Officer

Rachel Barre

L'Oréal

Sustainable Sourcing Director

John Sauven

Greenpeace

Executive Director, UK

Miguel Veiga-Pestana

Reckitt Benckiser

Senior Vice-President, Global Corporate Affairs and Sustainability

Michael Alexander

Diageo

Head of Water, Environment, Agriculture Sustainability

Ruth Thomas

Global Agri-business Alliance

Director, Strategy and Operations

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Agenda highlights

Landscape approach: Key stakeholder groups will come together to discuss how the landscape approach will evolve over the next 5 years
How is the agriculture market dynamic changing? How are changes in market structure, sourcing trends and power likely to impact agricultural supply chains
Financial and legal risk in illegal commodities: Why big banks should engage beyond simple policies in hot button issues and a look at what good engagement in financing sustainable commodities look like in practice
Landscape and land restoration: The possibilities for reforestation, land rehabilitation and what it means for climate change, offsets and re-invigorating nature
Smallholder faming: How business can empower farmers and build resilience across smallholder supply chains

Tackling deforestation: Why companies are not reaching their 2020 zero-deforestation targets and how to correctly implement deforestation policies
The future of certification: Is certification still credible without key stakeholders at the table?
Blockchain, satellite imaging and precision agriculture: What are the latest tech and innovation solutions on the market and how can these be leveraged effectively
Corruption: The evolving role of business in tackling corruption across agricultural supply chains and how to tackle illegal deforestation by communities and smallholders
Enhancing climate resilience: How can business guarantee food security and help build resilience to the effects of climate change

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Why attend?

Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies

Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors

Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts

What’s different about this forum?

Innovation Forum is:

Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.

Innovation Forum is NOT:

A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.