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

Will gene editing’s potential be realised in agriculture?

The Genetic Literacy Project’s Jon Entine and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talk about why gene ed...

Unintended risks tackling deforestation, and what a good supply chain tool looks like

This week: Antje Fehling from Bluesign on some techniques that help apparel companies really get ...

How to operationalise your approach to deforestation

National Wildlife Federation’s Simon Hall, senior manager for tropical forests and agriculture, t...

The road to COP26, and apparel’s upcycling opportunities

This week: Textile Exchange’s COO Claire Bergkamp on how to prepare for this year’s COP26 meeting...

Shining a spotlight: food sector still lacks progress on the ground

Five years on from the Behind the Brands campaign, Oxfam America’s Matt Hamilton talks with Ian W...

Real rural resilience: How to connect smallholder farmers directly to global markets

Innovation Forum’s “Innovation Accelerator” action research programme recently published ground-b...

How the right data can help producers access carbon credits

This week: Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, talks about the challenges for producers to be able ...

Beefing up approaches to cattle methane emissions

Cargill’s sustainability director for animal nutrition and health, Heather Tansey, talks with Inn...

Route to net zero: why vehicle electrification is the vital spark

This week: To eliminate emissions in operations – and to tackle scope 3 supply chain emissions – ...

Palm oil: it’s all about viable producer communities

Gotz Martin from Golden Agri-Resources catches up with Ian Welsh about some of the big palm oil s...

Deforestation risks: much more than just putting out fires

This week: Simon Hall, senior manager for tropical forests and agriculture at the National Wildli...

Chemical complexity: Why we need to move beyond organic versus synthetic

Jon Entine, who leads the Genetic Literacy Project, a science communication non-profit, joins Inn...

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