Nutrition & Health – Pillar

IDF supports the global dairy sector in delivering on its aims to promote balanced, holistic diets that support good health, including appropriate consumption of animal protein especially for vulnerable populations that face nutrition deficiencies. 

• IDF represents the global sector on high profile issues related to nutrition, to ensure the key facts are heard by policy makers and opinion formers. Much of our work focuses on exploring the huge potential of the dairy sector has for tackling malnutrition and creating food security, promoting greater understanding of the nutritional value of dairy and the role it plays in healthy and sustainable diets and better understanding the science which determines the impact of dairy products on nutrition and health.
• The IDF is passionate about ensuring that the health impact of dairy foods as a whole food and not just individual nutrients is understood by key opinion formers and policy makers. IDF will continue to work with members to raise awareness of this important information, reinforcing the essential role of dairy in sustainable diets.
• One of our priorities is to ensure that nutrition is at the nexus of all the policies, guidelines, standards prepared and implemented by the UN agencies with a mandate in nutrition (FAO, WHO, IFAD, UNICEF and WFP) with the aim of reshaping food systems. IDF’s focus is to ensure consistency in policies put forward by UN agencies and alignment with the work of standard setting bodies such as Codex, safeguarding the role of dairy in a healthy diet and helping meet SDGs.