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

Cocoa sector’s joined up thinking in west Africa

Speaking in Accra, Ghana, the World Cocoa Foundation’s Ethan Budiansky and Innovation Forum’s Tob...

Supply chain data – why 100% standardisation doesn’t work

Supply Shift’s Jamie Barsimantov talks with Ian Welsh about trends in how companies are engaging ...

Has certification lost its way?

Nusa Urbancic, campaigns director, Changing Markets, debates the challenges for certification sch...

Anglo American: using targets to catalyse action

Jon Samuel, group head of social performance and engagement talks with Ian Welsh about AngloAmeri...

Fast fashion’s viscose deforestation impact

Nicole Rycroft, director, Canopy, outlines the links between the apparel sector and forest destru...

Weekly podcast: Novo Nordisk on why the SDGs are a tectonic shift for business

In this week’s podcast, Susanne Stormer, vice-president for sustainability at Novo Nordisk, talks...

How and why genome editing can transform agriculture

Joining Innovation Forum's Toby Webb are Jon Entine from the Genetic Literacy Project, Perry Hack...

Why Mars thrives when its farmers thrive

Francesca New, global sustainability manager at Mars, explains to Ian Welsh how the company engag...

Collaboration’s positive impact on apparel supply

At Innovation Forum’s sustainable apparel conference, Alison Ward, CEO CottonConnect, spoke with ...

Due diligence versus disclosure on human rights

Alexandra Channer from Verisk Maplecroft talks with Ian Welsh about how companies can make sense ...

Weekly podcast: how to focus business effort on modern slavery

Tim Gehring from the International Justice Mission gives insight to Ian Welsh into IJM’s work dev...

Weekly podcast: why audits don’t work, plus innovation in the cocoa supply chain

This week: World Cocoa Foundation director, environment, Ethan Budiansky talks with Innovation Fo...

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