LONDON, UK – On November 20-21, more than 350 sustainability leaders will once again come together in London to discuss the biggest issues faced by business in ensuring sustainable and resilient agricultural supply chains: Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Landscapes and Commodities Forum will equip delegates with the guidance and expertise to drive better commodity sourcing and deliver sustainable landscapes at scale.
This two day business conference will debate and showcase real world solutions to the most pressing and urgent challenges in commodity supply chains. I will look at what’s driving value chain change and how business is working to deliver on increasingly difficult sustainability targets.
Innovation Forum
Innovation Forum is an independent London-based company with decades of collective experience in sustainability events and publishing. We research, create, and facilitate debate-driven, focused events tackling the critical business sustainability challenges around the world.
Over the past few years, Innovation Forum has created successful annual and regional events, including those focused on preventing deforestation, sustainable agriculture, human rights and modern slavery and industry specific conferences in sustainable apparel and sugar production.
Land
This track will highlight leading sustainable agriculture practices and explore initiatives driving climate resilience within supply chains
Forests
This track will break down the challenges faced in removing deforestation from company supply chains, and look at the steps necessary for business to implement policies beyond 2020
Farmers
This track will assess how business can build resilience in smallholder supply chains and ensure social, environmental and economic sustainability for farmers
Tech & Innovation
This track will explore the latest innovations and solutions in agri-tech and how can these be leveraged effectively to build sustainable landscapes
Agenda highlights of the Sustainable Landscapes and Commodities Forum include:
- C-suite executives at Unilever and Louis Dreyfus Company discuss the future of sourcing sustainable commodities
- 2020 targets and beyond: Nestlé and Greenpeace on what’s been achieved and what’s next for business objectives around deforestation
- H&M and Pernod Ricard share their efforts to effectively monitor, protect and promote biodiversity throughout operations and supply chains
- How to tackle deforestation by communities and smallholders with L’Oréal and RSPO
- Mondelēz International and WWF on whether business should move from enforcing zero-deforestation to incentivising sustainable development
- Sustainable land management: How business can enable better water management, tackle the soil crisis, and engage in climate smart agriculture with METRO, University of Edinburgh, JUST and more
- How far is sustainability truly taking centre stage within financial institutions? HSBC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch share their insights
- Farmers of the future: Philip Morris International and Oxfam discuss how business can ensure the sustained viability of smallholders as a business model
- April, IDH and TFA2020 on how business can scale the landscape approach to sustainable commodities
See the full agenda here.
