Diageo is reducing its emissions by innovating in its packaging. It is trying to introduce circular economy in the traditional glass bottles. The company is also trying to use new types of material: aluminum and paper. At the same time, Diageo faces climate risks. Agricultural commodities and water are the inputs to manufacturing your favour beverages. In response, Diageo is supporting regenerative agriculture and water conservation projects.

Innovation involves working thoughtfully with partners (start-ups and non-profits). It also involves crucially a high tolerance of failure. Mark Sandys is the Chief Innovation Officer at Diageo, the British multinational alcohol beverage company.

Sections

Section 1: First 18 minutes : Getting to know Mark and understand Diageo’s approach to innovation.

Section 2: Next 31 minutes about Diageo’s innovations in packaging.

Section 3: Last six minutes about climate risks and Diageo’s response.

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Mark Sandys

Chief Innovation Officer, Diageo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-sandys-b629b6b8/

https://www.diageo.com/en

Digital innovation in agriculture is already bringing solutions to farmers that helps them use their mobile phones to obtain a range of useful services. They can get information about product prices and advice on pest control. They can also buy farm inputs as well sell their products. Almost always underbanked, they can also get credit. Is AI adding an extra fizz to these solutions? We discussed with Daniele Tricarico about the GSMA report AI for Africa: Use cases delivering impact.

We learnt that AI is adding an extra layer of additional benefits to these existing solutions and also helping develop some new solutions (such as better weather predictions and tracking food security). Both machine learning and generative AI are being used in these applications. Grant capital is available to develop initial pilots. Local talent who knows the agricultural landscape and brainy young people who work on the data and the programming are there as well. Companies are working around the problem of lack of data. Partnerships of start-ups with large IT companies and with mobile networks is critical to deployment of solutions.

Sections

Section 1: First 5 minutes : introduction

Section 2: Next 54 minutes the AI use cases in food and agriculture

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

New Ventures

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Daniele Tricarico

Senior Director, Central Insights & Monitoring & Evaluation, Mobile for Development

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieletricarico/

https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-for-development/gsma_people/daniele-tricarico/

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Too much food is wasted by consumers. Reducing this wastage is important. It is good for the climate and for one’s own wallet, not to mention the conscience.

Everybody agrees that it is important and yet reducing food waste is hard. People waste food not because they don’t care but often they do not know better ways to buy, store, cook and eat. Luckily, there are a whole set of tools from the discipline of psychology to help people become aware and have the right skills and behaviour.

Dr. Sophie Attwood behavioural scientist and a thought leader on sustainable food and heath choices. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge and has worked with the global think tank WRI. In the podcast she also touches upon how companies who are developing solutions for the problem of food waste and selling plant based meats could market their products.

Sections

Section 1: First 8 minutes : introduction

Section 2: Next 34 minutes about food waste: how much, why and how to solve the problem?

Section 3 : Last 6 minutes about plant based meats.

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Dr. Sophie Attwood

Behavioural Science Consultant

https://www.behaviorglobal.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sophie-attwood/

The World Fair Trade Organisation certifies small and medium enterprises which practice fair trade principles. Chief among them is that 50% of their profits are contributed towards a cause. The objective of WFTO is to prove that innovation and entrepreneurship is consistent with stakeholder capitalism. Innovation – the process of increasing productivity – is not just restricted to a shareholder capitalist system. WFTO members include food processing enterprises both in the Global North and Global South.

Leida Rijnhout, based in the Netherlands, is the Chief Executive of the World Fair Trade Organisation. She has extensive experience in Netherlands and in the world of non-profits before finding her entrepreneurial calling at WFTO.

Sections

Section 1: First 25 minutes about WFTO certification

Section 2: Next 25 minutes about WFTO enterprises in practice

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Leida Rijnhout Chief Executive

World Fair Trade Organisation

https://wfto.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leida-rijnhout-b5258a5/

[email protected]

Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 was also a leading thinker on education. 

His ideas on education are key to creating the consciousness

Section

Section 1: First 20 minutes about Tagore’s thoughts on education.  

Section 2: Next 20 minutes about how Tagore implemented his ideas on education.

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal,

Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Dr. Tom Kane

Programme Director

MSc: Business Analytics 

https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1376839

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kane-4010066/

[email protected]

In Kenya there has been droughts for the last four out of 5

Hack Stiernblad is the Chief Growth Officer of SunCulture responsible for market expansion and raising donor funds. SunCulture provides solar irrigation solutions to farmers in Kenya and is now expanding to Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire.

Sections

Section 1: First 7 minutes about Hack and SunCulture.    

Section 2: Next 40 minutes about SunCulture’s product and business.

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

New Ventures

⁠www.regainparadise.org⁠

Guest : Hack Stiernblad Chief Growth Officer

⁠[email protected]⁠

⁠https://sunculture.io/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hack-stiernblad-8276819a/?originalSubdomain=se⁠

Financial institutions have to take into both short term and long term horizons in assessing climate risks. This is not easy for banks in the emerging world. It requires expertise, access to data and new management processes.

Dr. Rutang Thanawalla is a risk assessment expert for financial institutions with experience across global commercial banks, credit rating agencies and consultancies. He now focuses on climate risks and

Sections    

Section 1: First 10 minutes introductions and climate risks.  

Section 2: Next 13 minutes about climate risk scenarios.

Section 3: Next 22 minutes about applying the concepts.    

Host : Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Rutang Thanawalla Risk Management:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rutang/

With climate change El Nino droughts will become more frequent and more intense. To be fore warned is to be fore armed. Warnings will have to be taken seriously and farmers should not plant their seeds hoping that rains will come only to face a total crop failure. Kvuno, a social enterprise spun out of Solidaridad, the international NGO, is developing a digital database of farmers in Southern Africa. This digital platform can be used to provide inform and help farmers learn how to adapt to the changing weather patterns. It can also be used to provide farm inputs and finance products such as loans and insurance. Both non-profits and commercial organisations can reach small holder farmers using the digital platform.

Sections

Section 1: First 20 minutes introductions and the drought in Southern Africa.

Section 2: Next 20 minutes about what Kvuno does and how it will help.

Host: Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

www.regainparadise.org

Guest : Joshua Chela Business Development Lead

Kvuno

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-chileshe-chela-00623369/

https://kvuno.io/

A child substantially shorter than their age in the first

Sections

Section 1: First 20 minutes about the context and how the project was structured

Section 2: Next 40 minutes about the project lessons and results

Host :

Sanjoy Sanyal, Founder Regain Paradise

Guest:

Sheikh Shahed Rahman Ex Chief of Party, Suchana pogram, Save the Children in Bangladesh

Rubaiyath Sarwar Managing Director, Innovision Consulting