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Chaos and Covid-19: investor lessons from a pandemic
Covid-19 has made it blindingly clear that companies and business processes are inextricably tied up with the wider social, political and environmental contexts in which …
Long read: Palm Oil, biofuels, sustainability and the EU. The state of play and the way forward
The European Union’s 2017 announcement of a planned phase out of the use of palm oil in biofuels was greeted with delight by many. Climate …
Sustainable socks, and other insights from brands, innovators and experts
We’ve shifted over to our new website at Innovation Forum. It’s much easier to find your way around now. Check it out here. Now, you …
Sustainable agriculture: Only farmers can change farming
There’s no substitute to working closely with farmers on-the-ground for real and effective transformation in agriculture, argues Chris Wille Many well-intended companies will not meet …
Some thoughts after our recent sustainable landscapes conference (now updated)
A couple of weeks ago we held our first sustainable landscapes conference in London. It was a combination of conferences and a culmination of four …
Information age: the role of transparency in spreading best practice in commodity production
By Chris Eves, forestry officer at the Zoological Society of London Speaking recently, Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, stated that: “None of the …
Podcast frenzy & lots of no-cost insight, from human rights, to strategy, to sustainable landscapes
I haven’t posted on here for a while. We’ve been busy publishing on the main Innovation Forum site, which has hugely increased traffic in the …
Sustainability-related trade wars, some useful Palm Oil stats/factoids and food companies and deforestation
Trade “wars” (actually skirmishes) are all over the news at the moment. Alongside the political posturing of Trump and his economically-unhinged cohorts, there may be, …
Sustainable commodities: The depressed and disempowered vs. the angrily incoherent – some ideas for real change
It’s not often I sit down to write a post that could well annoy almost everyone I know. This is one of those. But it’s …
Business sustainability: We need to talk about measurement
First, and for a long time, we had philanthropy, and there was no need to measure that, except in cash given, and tax breaks received. …
Deforestation-free supply chains: Four trends to watch
Chris Meyer from the Environmental Defense Fund has put together an insightful blog post on the above topic, which is particularly timely, given this week …
Notes on the role of technology and innovation in sustainable agriculture
For the last two years, we at Innovation Forum have held conferences on this above topic in Washington D.C. Firstly with the Pew Centre and …
Some recent podcasts, engaging farmers, gene editing, missed deforestation targets, slavery and impact measurement
As you might know, we love a good old podcast at Innovation Forum. We find they get a lot more interest and listens/downloads than text …
43 stats, facts, comments and notes, about smallholder farming resilience, engagement and the SDGs
Here’s some notes from our recent conference on How business can make smallholder supply chains resilient which we held on 13-14 March in London, where we were generously …