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.

A rancher’s take on the future of agriculture

This week: North Dakota rancher and UK Channel 5 TV personality Jay Doan joins Ian Welsh to share a frontline perspective on regenerative agriculture and farm resilience. Recorded at the recent Future of Food and Beverage conference in Minneapolis, they talk about why regenerative agriculture is far from a trend, it’s a decades-old practice rooted in resilience, land stewardship, and long-term ...

31 Jul 25

How to boost soil health and accurately measure the carbon benefits

At the recent online future of food conference, Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, Britt Lundgren,...

Why traceability is not all good news for palm oil

This week: Palm oil company Musim Mas's director of sustainability Olivier Tichit, and assistant ...

Apparel companies’ role in overcoming barriers to circularity

At Innovation Forum’s recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference Toby Webb was joined by ...

How to plot a realistic and robust route to net zero

This week: Krishna Manda, vice-president for corporate sustainability at textile sector fibre man...

Fast fashion has ten years left. If so, what’s next?

Zalando’s CEO Robert Gentz has stated that the apparel industry must “abandon the fast fashion bu...

Regenerative agriculture: do believe the hype?

James Ede, group sustainability lead for starches, sweetners and texturisers at Cargill, and Andr...

How direct law enforcement prevents deforestation in Cambodia

Dr Suwanna Gauntlett, founder and CEO of anti-deforestation NGO Wildlife Alliance, talks with Ian...

Agri-sector entrepreneurs backed by Tesco and WWF

This week: representatives of the winning projects from WWF and Tesco’s Innovation Connections pr...

Green agriculture: how fertiliser partnership makes perfect

Birgitte Holter, head of green and low carbon fertilisers at Yara, and Claes Johansson, head of s...

How the palm oil sector is shifting from environmental to social sustainability

Ian Suwarganda, head of policy and partnerships at Golden Agri-Resources, speaks to Ian Welsh abo...

Why net zero could be too narrow a target

At IF's Future of Climate Action Conference, Rob Cameron, global head of public affairs and ESG e...

How to address leakage and establish baselines in deforestation projects

Josh Tosteson, president of Everland, speaks to Ian Welsh about a new plan to tackle deforestatio...

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