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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.
Issue 5: IDF Dairy Sustainability Outlook
IDF Dairy Sustainability Outlook issue 5 is a special edition, dedicated to the United Nations Food Systems Su....
Bulletin of the IDF N°517/2022: Eco-friendly and energy-saving dairy technologi...
The dairy processing sector has proven to be a committed adopter of energy saving technologies over the years.....
Bulletin of the IDF N° 515/2022: Guidelines for defining quarter and udder heal...
Given ongoing technological developments in the areas of microbiological diagnosis, detection of inflammatory....
Bulletin of the IDF N° 514/2022: Inventory of microbial food cultures with safe...
Since 2002, the International Dairy Federation (IDF), in collaboration with the European Food and Feed Culture....
Latest news & events
IDF World Dairy Summit’s Poster Competition
The fifth edition of the IDF Dairy Sustainability containing a new set of inspiring projects and their impacts on how dairy delivers on the UN....
IDF releases a new edition of the Dairy Sustainabi...
The fifth edition of the IDF Dairy Sustainability Outlook, containing a new set of inspiring projects and their impacts on how dairy delivers on the....
IDF has just published a new Bulletin on eco-frien...
A new Bulletin on eco-friendly and energy-saving dairy technologies is already available on IDF’s corporate website. The purpose of these....
Join the 7th IDF Symposium on Science and Technolo...
On November 29-30, 2022, join our dairy experts where fermented milk, one of the oldest methods used to prolong the shelf life of milk, which has....
