16 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
How to get closer to suppliers to tackle child labour
This week: Elaine McKay, international affairs director at JTI, talks with Innovation Forum’s Tob...
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.
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
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
10 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
Innovative finance for critical agri-SMEs
Ruth Thomas, director of the Global Agribusiness Alliance, explains why agri-sector SMEs need bet...
09 Sep 20 | Podcast
How to get beyond commodity silo thinking in a landscape
Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC, talks with Ian Welsh about why it’s important for smallholder to be a...
03 Sep 20 | Weekly podcast
Cargill’s Dave MacLennan on the dramatic evolution of sustainable business
This week: CEO of Cargill Dave MacLennan talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb about key supply...
02 Sep 20 | Podcast
How smallholder farmer resilience drives market access and income
Alison Ward, chief executive of CottonConnect, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about why ...
27 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
Why focus on best practice is the route to market access for farmers
This week: Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC, on how taking a landscape approach to cooperation can bene...
20 Aug 20 | Podcast
Can we feed the world while saving the planet?
Mariko Thorbecke, senior sustainability consultant and food sector lead at Quantis, discusses wit...
20 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
Smallholder farm living incomes, and Atlantic plastic pollution crisis
This week: Yuca Waarts from Wageningen University on the business interventions that can really h...
19 Aug 20 | Podcast
What a context-based approach means for corporate water targets
Cargill’s global water lead Truke Smoor explains to Ian Welsh how the company established its new...
14 Aug 20 | Weekly podcast
How smallholder farmers can develop financial resilience and new market linkages
This week: Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, on challenges for smallholder farmers emerging from...
13 Aug 20 | Podcast
Why better data is the key to regenerative agriculture
Franco Costantini, managing director Control Union UK, talks with Ian Welsh about why a shift to ...
23 Jul 20 | Weekly podcast
Cargill’s context-based water targets, and natural climate agriculture solutions
This week: Cargill’s Truke Smoor explains the motivation and science behind the company’s newly a...