Starvation Season in Northern Ghana: Yams, Cassava, and the Hidden Hunger Crisis
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Release Date: 09/09/2025
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): Lessons from NDPE and a Warning from the Field
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
In this episode, Scott reflects on the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) through the lens of three decades of work on forest protection and responsible sourcing. Drawing on his direct involvement in pioneering the world’s first corporate No Deforestation, Explotiation and Peatland Clearance (NDPE) commitments with companies such as Nestlé, Golden Agri-Resources, Asia Pulp & Paper and Wilmar, Scott situates the EUDR as both a continuation of — and a departure from — earlier, more collaborative approaches to stopping deforestation. While welcoming the ambition of the...
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Voices from Nakpatua: Ghanaian Farmers Embrace Biochar
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Summary In this episode of Sustainability Stories, Scott Poynton shares his experiences in Nakpatua, Ghana, where he introduces biochar to local farmers. The conversation explores the farmers' initial understanding of biochar, their observations during trials, and the potential benefits of using biochar in agriculture. The episode highlights the community's engagement and the promising future of biochar in enhancing soil health and resilience against climate change. Takeaways The farmers in Nakpatua had little knowledge of biochar before its introduction. Biochar is made from agricultural...
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Starvation Season in Northern Ghana: Yams, Cassava, and the Hidden Hunger Crisis
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
When Full Stomachs Still Mean Starvation Come to the field with me to explore food insecurity in northern Ghana’s dry season: yams, cassava, and the struggle for nutrition, resilience, and how biochar and protein crops like Bambara create hope for farming families.
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Hope, Fungi, and Fighting for the Planet — Katie Critchlow’s Inspiring Sustainability Journey
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
From M&S Plan A to Nature Metrics and beyond, Katie shares lessons on building businesses that value nature, drive systemic change, and create hope for a living planet. In this wide-ranging conversation, sustainability leader Katie Critchlow joins Scott Poynton to share her journey from pioneering Plan A at Marks & Spencer to leading Nature Metrics and now co-founding Re-genus, a fungi-based regenerative agriculture startup. Katie reflects on the successes and frustrations of corporate sustainability, the limits of data and impact investing, and why reconnecting people with nature is...
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Denis & Harriet: Humanitarian Leaders in Uganda's Sustainability Story
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Meet Denis and Harriet, humanitarian leaders from Uganda's community empowerment initiative, Anyim Wa.
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Biochar: Revolutionising Agriculture in Northern Ghana
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Explore the transformative potential of biochar for smallholder farmers in Ghana as I share my firsthand experiences.'
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Spiritual Leadership and Sustainability with Hugh Locke
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Hugh Locke shares stories of his journey as a spiritual warrior and advocate for sustainability, focusing on empowering farmers worldwide.
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One Tree Planted: Restoring Forest Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Learn how One Tree Planted is revolutionizing sustainability by restoring forest landscapes worldwide.
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Daring Dialogue #1: On Regeneration - A Quiet Chat Between Scott & Nadene
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Nadene Canning is a facilitator, learning designer, coach, mentor and a very fine human being. She cares about others and has deep experience supporting people to travel their journeys. I had the privilege of meeting Nadene online in January 2024 and in person a month or so later. We got along like a house on fire. We're both fascinated by this notion of regeneration; yes, of soils and Nature, but in our case, most particularly the regeneration of the human spirit. We have committed to exploring the topic in a series of short (around 10 min) podcasts. This is our first episode and we look...
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Gretha Oost - 1Million Mini Missions
Sustainability Stories with Scott Poynton | Inspiring Change for Our Planet
Gretha Oost is inspiring. An inventor, an entrepreneur, a community member and a true believer that together, we can make the world a better place. Gretha has built a beautiful initiative called "1million mini missions" to help people to come together to do what they each can do. All on their own, these mini missions are beautiful, but together, they represent a catalyst to inspire social change from the ground up, by focusing on what's possible, that which binds us together, not what divides us.
info_outlineWhen Full Stomachs Still Mean Starvation
Come to the field with me to explore food insecurity in northern Ghana’s dry season: yams, cassava, and the struggle for nutrition, resilience, and how biochar and protein crops like Bambara create hope for farming families.