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

Why brands struggle to translate global goals into local progress

This week: Oxfam America’s Matt Hamilton discusses the conclusions from the new Shining a Spotlig...

Fifty shades of green: the unintended consequences of planting trees

In the first of an occasional podcast series, sustainability expert Simon Lord and Innovation For...

What does the roadmap to regenerative apparel look like?

Jeff Tkach, chief impact officer at the Rodale Institute, and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb talk a...

How Cargill cuts methane from cattle supply chains

This week: Heather Tansey, sustainability director for animal nutrition and health at Cargill, ta...

Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes

Reflecting on recent Innovation Forum research, one of the project partners, Silke Peters, team l...

Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed

Toby Webb speaks with Grant Rosoman, senior forests campaigner at Greenpeace, about the organisat...

Is smallholder farming really a broken model?

Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation at Golden Agri-Resources, explains why food sy...

What’s the solution to the profit pursuit problem?

Business has lost its purpose, says Prof Andy Hoffman from the Ross School of Business at the Uni...

What will future materials be made from?

This week: Neste’s Lars Börger, Covestro’s Lynette Chung, Unilever’s Marika Lindstrom and Werner ...

Organic cotton's sector-changing potential

In the first of a new quarterly podcast series, Textile Exchange CEO La Rhea Pepper talks with In...

GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice

This week: Silke Peters from the sustainable agriculture supply chain initiative at GIZ talks abo...

How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains

Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, talks with Ian Welsh about the durability of cotton supply cha...

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