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 avoid data overload in the food and forest sectors

Rob Waterworth, chief executive of the Mullion Group, discusses with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh...

Weekly podcast: How to mitigate biofuel impacts on land use change and tropical deforestation

This week: Nils Hermann Ranum, head of the drivers of deforestation programme at Rainforest Found...

IBM on the potential for AI in food supply chains

Dan Wolfson, IBM distinguished engineer with the Weather Company, discusses the potential of arti...

Quantis on how the food sector can establish clear climate strategy roadmaps

Carole Dubois, senior sustainability consultant and food sector lead at Quantis, talks with Ian W...

Weekly podcast: Tesco on using science-based targets to tackle food supply challenges

This week: Kené Umeasiegbu, head of environment at Tesco, talks about how food retailers can tack...

Greenpeace on the massive business-model changes required to prevent climate change

Richard George, head of forests, Greenpeace UK, and Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb discuss the main...

Ipsos on the intention-behaviour gap for consumer purchasing decisions

Tamara Ansons, behaviour science consultant at Ipsos, and Ian Welsh discuss new research – from I...

Weekly podcast: The Nature Conservancy on deforestation and land conversion, and Mullion Group on food sector stakeholder trust

This week: David Cleary, head of agriculture at The Nature Conservancy, talks with Toby Webb abou...

Why current market mechanisms don’t reflect the true cost of food

Libby Bernick, managing director of Trucost Corporate Business, S&P Global, discusses with Ia...

Why Pepsico gathers 240 supplier data points

David Wilkinson, head of agriculture procurement at PepsiCo, talks with Toby Webb about the techn...

Weekly podcast: how palm oil supply chains can become more forest-positive

This week: Golden Agri-Resources’ Anita Neville on how the debate on biofuels is shifting and how...

Syngenta on how to tackle global agriculture productivity challenges

Jill Wheeler, head of sustainable productivity Syngenta North America, and Duane Martin, commerci...

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