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.

Deforestation-free supply chains: Addressing 2025 target dates and future trajectories

2025 is a milestone year for corporate action on deforestation and ecosystem conversion. As companies with agricultural and forestry supply chains approach 2025 target...

17 June 2025 - 15:00

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Nestlé income accelerator program: Annual Progress Report

In 2022, Nestlé launched the “Income Accelerator Program”, an innovative family-centred approach aimed at closing the living income gap and reducing child labour risks...

25 June 2025 - 13:30

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Seeing the unseen: data, disruption and supply chain strategy

This week: Olivia Dobson, director of climate and resilience at Verisk Maplecroft, joins Ian Welsh to explore interconnected supply chain risks, the shift toward enterprise-level risk consideration, and emerging challenges around supply chain visibility. They examine how geopolitical uncertainties, regulatory compliance and data management are reshaping sourcing strategies. Plus: Ulla Hueppe, v...

12 Jun 25

Pandemic impacts on food sector forced labour risks

This week: The new food and beverage sector forced labour and human rights issues benchmark from ...

What are the business-led solutions for smallholder communities?

Peter Stanbury and Ian Welsh discuss some of the initial insights from Innovation Forum’s action ...

The sustainable South American supply chains challenge

This week: Renata Nogueira, South America sustainability manager for Cargill, and Gonzalo La Cruz...

Why engaging growers is an opportunity not a burden

Gotz Martin, head of sustainability implementation at Golden Agri-Resources, and Ian Welsh summar...

Webinar – Addressing gaps in sustainability: why fashion brands need more data

As apparel brands work to implement sustainability commitments across their supply chains, access...

How traders can be the facilitators for brand sustainability goals

This week: Janina Grabs from ETH Zurich and Sophia Carodenuto from the University of Victoria tal...

What drives children to work in agriculture?

Recorded during a Q+A session at Innovation Forum’s recent ethical trade and human rights confere...

Evolving buyer-grower supply chain relationships, and Fairtrade America on cocoa

This week: Some early pointers from Innovation Forum’s new smallholder farmer research group – in...

Webinar – How to collect, collate and utilise on-farm data so the entire supply chain benefits

To ensure crop yields are optimised and inputs minimised, food brands and their suppliers need cl...

Why the world’s food supply chains remain resilient

Dave MacLennan, CEO of Cargill, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about the evolution of su...

Incentives for smallholders that help save forests

Golden Agri-Resources head of sustainability implementation Gotz Martin talks about finding solut...

Why vibrant rural economies drive agri-sector strength

Ruth Thomas, director of the Global Agribusiness Alliance, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Wels...

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