Helping to nourish the world with safe and sustainable dairy.
ensures the best scientific expertise is used to support high quality milk and
nutritious, safe and sustainable dairy products.
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Dairy & sustainable development goals
The dairy sector is an essential contributor to the UN sustainable development goals.
While the sector has obvious impacts on ending hunger, achieving food security, and improving the nutritional value of diets in a sustainable manner, the sector also has an important part to play in the achievement of many of the other sustainability goals identified.
For more information on the dairy sector’s commitment to the sustainable development goals, including case studies and other information, visit the website of the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam.
IDF Membership
IDF’s membership is made up of National Committees, constituted by dairy organizations in each country and representing as fully as possible the various dairying activities of the country (such as milk production, manufacture, distribution, technology, science, human nutrition, marketing, economics, education and administration).
It is estimated that 12-14% of the world population live on dairy farms or within dairy farming households
More than 6 billion people worldwide consume milk and milk products
At least 160 million children around the world currently receive and benefit from receiving milk at school
World milk production is expected to grow 1.7% p.a. reaching approximately 981 Mt by 2028
Milk and dairy foods are important sources of several nutrients that contribute to health and a well-balanced diet.
The dairy sector benefits from IDF/ISO’s unique collaboration to provide standards for methods of analysis and sampling
Featured publications
IDF provides a permanent source of authoritative scientific and other information on a whole range of topics relevant to the dairy sector.
The IDF global Carbon Footprint standard for the dairy sector...
The purpose of this bulletin is to assist the dairy sector in its efforts to reduce GHG emissions across all i....
IDF Annual Report 2021-2022
Our Annual Report 2020-2021 provides an overall picture of the activities and achievements of IDF over the las....
Bulletin of the IDF N°518/2022: The World Dairy Situation Report 2022...
Annual survey containing information on milk and dairy production, processing, companies, consumption, trade,....
Issue 5: IDF Dairy Sustainability Outlook
IDF Dairy Sustainability Outlook issue 5 is a special edition, dedicated to the United Nations Food Systems Su....
Latest news & events
World School Milk Day approaches!
As we soon approach World School Milk Day on 28 September, IDF would like to highlight the importance of school meal programmes, which help to feed....
The future of the dairy sector in accelerating cli...
The United Nations COP 27 on Climate, which will take place this November in Egypt, will be an opportunity to discuss agriculture and food systems....
The IDF World Dairy Summit 2022 concluded with imp...
September 19, 2022, Brussels. Under the theme “Dairy for Nutrition and Livelihood”, the IDF World Dairy Summit 2022 ended last week after four....
A new bulletin with a revised IDF global Carbon Fo...
A new edition of the IDF bulletin dedicated to the second update of the IDF Global Carbon Footprint methodology for the dairy sector was published....
