In this Unitas Conference 2023 podcast, in partnership with Lumina Intelligence and sponsored by KP Snacks, host Blonnie Whist, the Insight Director at Lumina Intelligence, sits down with John Kinney, the Managing Director of Unitas. They delve

Is cocoa’s deforestation-free promise working? - with Violaine Berger (IDH)

May 6th, 2020 43m 21s

Violaine Berger, senior program manager of the Cocoa & Forests Initiative at the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) discusses the successes and outstanding challenges of combating deforestation in cocoa.Episode 11 - Sustainable Food & Drink Pod

Satellite mapping’s potential to halt deforestation - Rob McWilliam (Earthworm)

Mar 10th, 2020

Rob McWilliam, director of technical services at the Earthworm Foundation, discusses the capacilities and future of the Airbus Starling satellite system to halt deforestation linked to crops used by food & drink companies.Episode 10 - Sustainab

A living income with blockchain tokens - with Guido Van Staveren Van Dijk (Fairchain) and Carlo Ruiz (UNDP)

Jan 23rd, 2020

Guido Van Staveren Van Dijk, founder of the Fairchain Foundation and Carlo Ruiz of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) discuss a chocolate bar targetting a living income for farmers through blockchain tokens.Episode Nine - Sustaina

What next for fair trade? - with Jeroen Douglas (Solidaridad)

Dec 6th, 2019

Jeroen Douglas, executive director of NGO Solidaridad, says organisations like Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance should push for regulation and price transparency in commodity markets, but shouldn’t be the reference for sustainability.Episode E

Making chocolate fair - with Cathy Pieters (Mondelēz International)

Oct 3rd, 2019

Cathy Pieters, director of Cocoa Life, Mondelēz Interntional 10-year, $400m sustainability intiative, discusses learnings from the Cadbury and Oreo maker's sustainability programme and how it is marketing ethical products.Episode Seven - Sustai

Coffee child labour - with Bambi Semroc (Sustainable Coffee Challenge)

Aug 13th, 2019

Bambi Semroc, vice president of sustainable markets and strategy at the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, intiated by Conservation International and Starbucks, discusses the worst forms of child labour in coffee.Episode Six - Sustainable Food & Dri

What is sustainable cocoa? - with Jack Steijn

Jul 18th, 2019

Jack Steijn, chair of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard on sustainable cocoa, discusses the potential impact of the new standard.Also featuring comments from Antonie Fountain, managing director of the VOICE Netwo

Palm oil boycotts - with Inke van der Sluijs (RSPO)

Jun 26th, 2019

Inke van der Sluijs, head of European operations at the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (the RSPO) discusses supermarket palm oil boycotts. Episode Four - Sustainable Food & Drink Podcast - hosted by Lumina Intelligence analyst Oliver Niebu

Minimum cocoa prices - with ICCO and WCFO

Jun 20th, 2019

Michel Arrion, executive director of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) and Sako Warren, secretary general of the World Cocoa Farmers Organization's (WCFO), react to Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’s proposed minimum floor price of $2,600 per

Deforestation and cocoa - with Rick Scobey

Apr 30th, 2019

Rick Scobey, president of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), speaks to Lumina sustainablity analyst Oliver Nieburg about the Cocoa & Forests Intiative's plans to combat deforestation in West Africa

Cocoa in Ecuador after cadmium - with Francisco Miranda

Apr 30th, 2019

Francisco Miranda, president of Anecacao, Ecuador’s national cocoa export association, speaks to Lumina sustainablity analyst Oliver Nieburg about how the EU's new limits on cadmium may impact the national cocoa sector.

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