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- GDAA PROGRESS REPORT ON DAIRY SECTOR COMMITMENTS 2009-2011
- The Global Dairy Agenda for Action: Biannual reporting event, Parma, Italy, Wednesday 19 October 2011
- Global Dairy Agenda for Action - reporting event, IDF 2010 World Dairy Summit, Auckland, New Zealand
- Showcasing the Dairy Sector's Efforts in the Green Paper
- Questions and Answers on the FAO report “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector”
- FAO report “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector”
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Dairy Agenda for Action
- Statement of Commitment
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Questions and Answers
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The Global Dairy Agenda for Action
- What is the Global Dairy Agenda for Action?
- What are the Global Dairy Agenda for Action commitments?
- Who are the organisations signing the Global Dairy Agenda for Action?
- Why is the Global Dairy Agenda for Action being implemented now?
- What are the targets for reduced emissions?
- What is the role of policy makers and stakeholders?
- When will progress be reported?
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The Global Dairy Agenda for Action
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GREEN PAPER
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Emissions reductions
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Agricultural emissions research
- Experimental farm of AgroParisTech school: Grignon Energie Positive - France
- Cow methane measurement - Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Research that advances the science and best practices for the use of manure and other co-products on dairy farms of all sizes - USA
- Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions: A meta-analysis of current databases – United Kingdom
- feeding+ manual and campaign – United Kingdom
- PH.D SCHOLAR on Livestock production Management - India
- Fonterra’s Investment in Agricultural Emissions Research
- Fonterra’s Investment in Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Research
- Research Partnerships - United Kingdom
- Carbon storage in soils - France
- PECUS Research Network – Brazil
- RumenGases Project – Brazil
- Improving the efficiency of dairy production reduces GHG emissions - Ireland
- Development of agricultural technologies to address global warming - Japan
- Farm-scale Assessment of GHG Mitigation Strategies in Dairy Livestock-Cropping systems - Canada
- Research: reducing dairy emissions - Australia
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Optimising animal feeding
- Breeding of forage grasses and legumes to enhance the sustainability of grassland agriculture - United Kingdom
- Sustainable oat production – United Kingdom
- Developing management tools: feed rations - Sweden
- Locally grown feed - Sweden
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Paying a premium for grazing - CONO Cheesemakers (Kaasmakers), the Netherlands
- Feed supply; reducing emissions - CONO Kassmakers, the Netherlands
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Air, noise and GHG emission reductions - Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Improved herd feeding
- Milk Roadmap trialling new technology – United Kingdom
- Valio research on emissions reductions - Finland
- ‘Milch animals of the future’: Improving productivity and reducing emissions - India
- Optimising use of fertilisers and animal feeding - Colombia
- Implementing Silvopasture systems - Agustín Codazzi, Cesar, Colombia
- Feed seed business: A viable option for dairy farmers - Ethiopia
- Building commercial relationships between input suppliers and forage producers - Madagascar
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Atlantic Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Quebec Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Ontario Program - Canada
- Greenhouse gas mitigation program: Western Canada Project
- Feed efficiency - Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Methane emission reduction in India through balanced feeding and breed improvement programmes - Study 1 in Gujarat state
- Methane emission reduction in India through balanced feeding and breed improvement programmes - Study 3 in Andhra Pradesh state
- Methane emission reduction in India through balanced feeding and breed improvement programmes - Study 4 in Maharashtra state
- Use of minerals to reduce GHG emissions per litre of milk - India
- Feeding bypass protein to reduce methane emissions - India
- Densified crop residues to reduce methane emissions in ruminant animals - India
- Supplying quality fodder seed to reduce GHG emissions per kg of milk - India
- New Opportunities for Forage Species - United Kingdom
- Methane emission reduction in India through balanced feeding and breed improvement programmes - Study 2 in Uttar Pradesh state
- The Benefits of Increasing Feed Efficiency - David and Jane Homer, England
- Use of natural plant resources as feed supplements to reduce methane emission - India
- Balanced feeding for productivity enhancement and N excretion reduction in lactating cows and buffaloes - India
- Stonyfield Greener Cow Project - Vermont, USA
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Optimising use of fertilisers
- Farmyard manure and slurry use on clover swards – United Kingdom
- Optimisation of fertilizer use and manure and slurry management - France
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Managing emissions of nitrogen - United Kingdom
- Silvopastoriles (planting trees and use of fertilisers) - Nicaragua
- Optimising use of fertilisers and animal feeding - Colombia
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
- Slow and steady fertilizers may win the race - Roy and Clinton Roddau, Tin Can Bay, Australia
- Nutrient Management - David and Jane Homer, England
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Optimising manure management
- British dairy farmer-funded research and development on mitigation and adaptation to climate change – Great Britain
- Farmyard manure and slurry use on clover swards – United Kingdom
- Emissions reductions - Greece
- Impact of Dairy Reform on Emissions - Israel
- Emissions reductions – on farm: Less emissions per kilogram of milk solids
- Rod and Libby Swan- Western Victoria - Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Vrieze Farms - Wisconsin - USA
- Foster Brothers Farm - Vermont - USA
- Manure handling solutions
- Optimising manure management - Colombia
- Effluent management - Chile
- Mikhail Molchanov, Farm “Dmitrova Gora”(The Tver region, Russia)
- Gladilin Vladimir Farm “Agrosouse” Mordovia, Russia
- Kutuzov Irakli Farm “Prostor”(the Riazan region, Russia)
- Avoiding water pollution through efficent manure management in East Java
- Instalación de Digestor anaeróbico para el tratamiento de los residuos y producción de energía en tambo existente en Estación Experimental Agropecuaria de Rafaela - Argentina
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
- Managing farm effluent and enhancing the farm environment - Peter and Bonnie Taylor, Heathmere, Victoria, Australia
- Effluent management and farm habitat - David Lee, Bungaree, Victoria, Australia
- Dairy effluent treatment system INTA Rafaela - Argentina
- Scientific approach for efficient cattle waste management - India
- Green Mountain Dairy – Vermont, USA
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Reducing nutrient run-off (leaching)
- Errol and Paul Teese Beaudesert - Queensland, Australia
- Farming in practice - Vaughan and Megan Templeton, Southland, New Zealand
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Milk Roadmap nutrient planning – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap manure management plans – United Kingdom
- Improving farm environmental performance - Uruguay
- Improving Nutrient Management
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Improving soil management
- Michael and Dawn Waite - Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Biological approach to dairy farming - Ben Holloway, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
- Sustainable Ecological Development in India – 23.5 million trees planted under AMUL Green Campaign
- Sustainable dairy farming - Robert Grieve, Millbrook, Victoria, Australia
- Carbon storage in soils - France
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Optimising farm management
- Fact sheets and case studies – United Kingdom
- Dairy Farm Achievements – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap pollution incidents – United Kingdom
- Producción Limpia (PML) - Colombia
- Clover's Best Farming Practices – South Africa
- Farm management practices – South Africa
- Developing best practice – South Africa
- Farming in South Africa
- Silvopastoral systems – Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Developing the dairy industry - Paraguay
- Developing the dairy industry - Ukraine
- Increasing incomes for rural dairy farmers in Malawi
- Herd Management and Farm Economics - India
- Improving milk quality in East Java Province
- Elimination of Antibiotic Residues from Milk - Morocco
- Implementing best farming practices in Chile's dairy
- Putting agricultural know-how to work for sustainable and competitive Chinese milk
- Las cooperativas lácteas de Argentina están comprometidas con una producción ambientalmente sostenible
- Reducing GHG in on our Dairy Farms - Canada
- Optimising farm management - Lynne and Michael Strong: Clover Hill Dairies, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia
- Reducing erosion and more efficient cropping - Rob Terry, Dairy Plains, Tasmania, Australia
- Farming more sustainably - Duncan MacDonald, Yolla, Tasmania, Australia
- Efficient use of resources and shelter belts - Trevor Thomas, Victoria, Australia
- Efficient production of feed - Paul Bennett, Ashgrove (dairy) farm, Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Australia
- Economic and sustainably viable long-term whole of farm approach - James and Rachel Downie, Clarendon, Tasmania, Australia
- Developing a Dairy Farm Stewardship Toolkit - USA
- Wilco Hilhorst, Noord-Steen, the Netherlands
- Sustainability Performance Assessment (SPA) project
- Medeiros & Son Dairy, Hanford, California, USA
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Others
- DairyCo Business Groups – Great Britain
- Investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency
- CO2 levy - Switzerland
- Environment protection plan: agricultural aspects - Iran
- Ben&Jerry’s and CONO’s Caring Dairy Program – the Netherlands
- Tools for Dairying Change: MG FarmC@re Environment Program - Australia
- Bega Environment Management System (BEMS) - Australia
- ‘Cool Coastal Cows’ - Caring for Our Country Program - Australia
- Web based mapping tool: eFarmer - Australia
- Dairy Feed Systems - USA
- Dairy Power: anaerobic technologies – USA
- Dairy Power Underground: capture of methane emissions - USA
- Desktop review of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming - United Kingdom
- Alcock, JE, BJ, RJ, and R - Crystal Brook, Australia
- Yoggi yalla!® - Arla’s climate neutral drinking yoghurt - Denmark and Sweden
- Planting riverbanks in trees - New Zealand
- Gray Baldwin and Hamish Putt – New Zealand Ballance Farm Environment Award Winners - committed to sustainable dairying
- Breeding (genetics) to improve milk production traits - MaryAnn Hortle, Moriaty, Tasmania, Australia
- The Path to Sustainable Development – A Strategy for Canadian Dairy Farmers
- Reducing and measuring carbon footprint - Graeme Nicoll, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Methane reduction through breed improvement programmes - India
- Methane reduction through improved breeding of animals - India
- U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment
- Dairy Roadmap - United Kingdom
- Fonterra Emissions Variation Assessment - New Zealand
- Arla Foods work with emissions reductions
- Arla’s Environmental Strategy 2020 sets new standards
- Dairy Self Assessment Tool (DairySAT) - Australia
- Feeding efficiency through local breeds - Colombia
- Silvopastoral Systems: Reserva Natural El Hatico - Colombia
- Sustainable Dairy Farming
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Agricultural emissions research
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Energy efficiency
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On-farm energy use in milking and refrigeration
- Fonterra’s Dairy Electricity Advisory Programme (DEAP) - New Zealand
- Decarbonisation of farm activities with energy generation from solar panels - Cremona Province, Italy
- Milk Roadmap improving energy efficiency – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap anaerobic digestion – United Kingdom
- Pioneer farmer powers dairy with slurry biogas - United Kingdom
- Crave Brothers Farm and Farmstead Cheese - Wisconsin, USA
- Green Mountain Dairy – Vermont, USA
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Energy efficiency - Greece
- Optimisation of the performance of tractor engines - France
- Solar panels reducing demand for energy in milking shed - Peter Telford, Mt Gambier, South Australia
- Efficient Use of Water Energy and Nutrient Resources (EWEN) program - Australia
- Green cleaning system - Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Energy efficiency: capturing waste heat - Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Solar hot water reduces costs in the dairy - Mark and Joanne Seng, Australia
- The Sustainable Dairy Chain - commitment of the Dutch dairy industry
- Wilco Hilhorst, Noord-Steen, the Netherlands
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Optimised processing
- More efficient use of natural resources in dairy processing - Victoria, Australia
- Initiative to mitigate global warming - Japan
- Resource efficiency in Ireland's Dairy Processing Sector
- Cogeneration: increase of energy efficiency - France
- Energy efficiency - Greece
- Long-Term Agreements on energy Efficiency (LTA) – The Netherlands
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Energy savings in processing - New Zealand
- Biogas engine project - Australia
- Electrical energy – Australian examples
- Thermal energy – Australian examples
- Energy recovery from waste stream - Australia
- Reducing energy requirements - Australia
- Wood waste to generate energy - Australia
- Ohio plant cut refrigeration energy use by 25 percent while improving system productivity - USA
- Ohio plant lowers energy use while increasing safety and productivity - USA
- Wisconsin dairy realizes water, chemical and energy savings - USA
- Optimized processing
- Saving Energy and Money - United Kingdom
- Anaerobic digester at BV Dairy – United Kingdom
- Optimising heat transfer and regeneration - Canada
- Efforts to reduce CO2 – South Korea
- Dairy Processing - Zambia
- Energy efficiency: Glanbia - USA
- Energy efficiency: Glanbia - Ireland
- Energy Efficient Agreement – Royal FrieslandCampina - The Netherlands
- Non-contact Cooling - Canada
- Reduction of cleaning times (OptiCIP+) - The Netherlands
- GHG emission reductions by switching boiler fuel - Japan
- Arla Foods work with energy efficiency – some concrete examples from Denmark and Sweden
- Reducing Fonterra’s Milk Processing and Distribution Emissions - New Zealand
- Arla builds environmental friendly dairy in Aylesbury - United Kingdom
- Carbon Trust accreditation for Arla Foods UK
- Energy Neutral Dairy Chain - the Netherlands
- SLLC Food Grade Anti-fouling Coatings - China, Australia
- Dairy Plant Smart - USA
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Investing in renewable energy
- Fonterra’s Dairy Electricity Advisory Programme (DEAP) - New Zealand
- Investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Management of greenhouse gas emission quota - France
- Use of renewable energy in plants - France
- Israel – biogas facilities
- Long-Term Agreements on energy Efficiency (LTA) – The Netherlands
- Creating an energy-neutral chain of production – The Netherlands
- Renewable energy: cradle to processing – The Netherlands
- Energy savings in processing - New Zealand
- Biogas engine project - Australia
- Reducing energy requirements - Australia
- Industry association initiatives: DemoDAIRY - Australia
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- Green Mountain Dairy – Vermont, USA
- Crave Brothers Farm and Farmstead Cheese - Wisconsin, USA
- Oakhurst Dairy taps solar energy and hot water recovery - USA
- Pioneer farmer powers dairy with slurry biogas - United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap anaerobic digestion – United Kingdom
- Steam from biomass: wood-chip heat power station - Germany
- Renewable Energy - Finland
- Investing in renewable energy - Casa de Lata, Colombia
- Investing in renewable energy - La Maria, Colombia
- Biogas (and organic fertiliser) initiative: Parana, Brazil
- Mrs. Rutere’s biogas story: double benefit from dairying for Embu Dairy Cooperative Society - Kenya
- Biogas produced by dairy farms – Mexico
- Research that advances the science and best practices for the use of manure and other co-products on dairy farms of all sizes - USA
- The Sustainable Dairy Chain - commitment of the Dutch dairy industry
- Arla Trials Revolutionary Fuel Cell - United Kingdom
- Arla’s Environmental Strategy 2020 sets new standards
- Mengniu sustainability programmes - China
- On-farm anaerobic digestion: an Eastern Canadian example
- Use of renewable energies - France
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Environmental benchmarking
- Milk Roadmap CO2 reductions – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap environmental benchmarking – United Kingdom
- Dairy Roadmap - United Kingdom
- Integrated environmental analysis of milking systems with different intensification level - Argentina
- Arla’s Environmental Strategy 2020 sets new standards
- Dairy Self Assessment Tool (DairySAT) - Australia
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Others
- Dairy Roadmap - United Kingdom
- U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment
- The Path to Sustainable Development – A Strategy for Canadian Dairy Farmers
- DairyCo Business Groups – Great Britain
- Experimental farm of AgroParisTech school: Grignon Energie Positive - France
- Assessement of direct energy consumption in dairy farm buildings - France
- Individual energy diagnoses of farms (DIATERRE) - France
- Assistance in investments for energy savings on dairy farms - France
- FAEP (Farm Energy Audit Program) - USA
- CIP (Clean in Place) - USA
- Non-thermal Ultra-Violet Processing - USA
- Arizona: Shamrock Farms switches to LED lighting - USA
- Marks and Spencer is hot on efficient refrigeration – United Kingdom
- Milk collection initiative: Santa Caterina, Brazil
- Anaerobic Contact Process – Fonterra Tirau, New Zealand
- Factory wastewater treatment – Victoria, Australia
- Using irrigation water efficiently - Melanie and Grant Rogers, Derwent Valley, Tasmania, Australia
- Seoul Dairy Company – South Korea
- Saputo Environment policy - Canada
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On-farm energy use in milking and refrigeration
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Transport efficiency
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Optimised milk collections
- Milk collection initiative: Santa Caterina, Brazil
- Facilitating Business Development Linkages that work - Zambia
- Milk Collection Centers - Zambia
- Fresh milk collection for Nestlé - Uzbekistan
- East African Dairy Development Project (EADD) - Kenya and Uganda
- Eastern Dairies unites cooperatives and improves market - Uganda
- Transport efficiencies: Gooding, Idaho - USA
- Opportunities for reduction of fuel use: preliminary study - France
- Optimisation of milk collection - France
- Optimisation of collecting equipments - France
- Transport efficiency - Greece
- Transport efficiency: milk collection and transport of finished product to port – New Zealand
- Dairy Fleet Smart: adopting fuel-efficiency best practices in the USA
- VDM-SACHKUNDE für den Milchsammelwagenfahrer - Germany
- Milk collection - Finland
- Milk collection - Nicaragua
- Reducing the emissions from Fonterra’s milk collection - New Zealand
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Optimised product distribution
- Optimized product distribution
- Optimisation of logistics for end products - France
- Transport efficiency - Greece
- Transport efficiency: milk collection and transport of finished product to port – New Zealand
- Dairy Fleet Smart: adopting fuel-efficiency best practices in the USA
- BV Dairy cuts transport emissions with greener engines – United Kingdom
- The Megmilk Snow Brand Group sustainability efforts - Japan
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Optimised engine performance and driver training
- New and Improved Processes and Products: Transportation – Fuel Savings - USA
- Driver training - France
- Transport efficiency - Greece
- Fleet (milk collection) conversion - Australia
- Optimising truck efficiency at Saputo - Canada
- Arla Foods work with transport efficiency - Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom
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Optimised milk collections
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Reduction in loss of milk and dairy products
- Shelf life improvements for fresh products
- Working with retailers and consumers to reduce household waste
- Energy capture from waste product
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Resource efficiency
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Increase recycling of packaging
- Dairy Roadmap - United Kingdom
- Recycling of empty packages from hygiene products used on dairy farms - France
- Recycling of end product packaging - France
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Recycling of cardboard - Australia
- Increase recycling of packaging
- Dairy Crest chases 5,000 tonne reduction in milk packaging waste – United Kingdom
- Milk Link launches recycled cheese packaging – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap recycling of plastics – United Kingdom
- Reducing use of plastics - Canada
- ‘Just for You!’: Agropur - Canada
- 4L Natrel milk packaging: Agropur - Canada
- Arla Foods work with resource efficiency – the case of packaging in Denmark and the UK
- Arla’s Environmental Strategy 2020 sets new standards
- Make the public aware of the advantage of selective sorting of household waste - France
- Mengniu sustainability programmes - China
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Use of packaging with the lowest environmental impact
- Limit packaging at source: eco-conception - France
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Use packaging with the lowest environmental impact
- Sustainable sourcing of raw material
- Dairy Crest chases 5,000 tonne reduction in milk packaging waste – United Kingdom
- Milk Link launches recycled cheese packaging – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap recycling of plastics – United Kingdom
- Reducing use of plastics - Canada
- Making Glass Milk Bottle Lighter with Improved Reusability - Japan
- Environmentally friendly container designed for renewed ‘Yakult Joa’ - Japan
- Reducing Fluid Milk Packing Material Waste - Punjab, India
- Arla Foods work with resource efficiency – the case of packaging in Denmark and the UK
- Role of packaging in improving the sustainability of cheese supply chain - Italy
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Increase recovery of waste
- Promote Recycling Waste for a Sustainable Society in Japan
- Resource efficiency - Greece
- Packaging efficiencies - Australia
- Packaging improvements - Australia
- Recycling to reduce landfill - Australia
- Prairieland Dairy – Nebraska, USA
- Dean Foods Company – Texas, USA
- Zero waste to landfill – United Kingdom
- Increase recovery of waste - Colombia
- New and Improved Processes and Products: Case-Less Milk Jug Technology - USA
- As regards packaging in Lactalis - France
- Implementation of the European Packaging Directive – Royal Friesland Campina
- Reducing solid waste and supporting reuse and recycling - Canada
- Reduce waste out of dairy factories and improve resource efficiency - Japan
- Disposal of on-farm waste - Grant Archer, Cressy, Tasmania, Australia
- Supporting dairy processors to reduce product losses
- Packaging recycling and waste recovery as a sustainable industry experience - Uruguay
- Reducing Fonterra’s Milk Processing and Distribution Emissions - New Zealand
- The Megmilk Snow Brand Group sustainability efforts - Japan
- Increase recovery of water
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Optimising water use
- Using irrigation water efficiently - Melanie and Grant Rogers, Derwent Valley, Tasmania, Australia
- Water Program in Nigeria and Ghana – Royal FrieslandCampina
- Managing scarcity and recycling of embedded water – Colombia
- Efficient Use of Water Energy and Nutrient Resources (EWEN) program - Australia
- Graham and Theresa Bourke - Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
- Kym and Kate Bartlett - South Australia
- PE & SL Balfour - "Malmani", Australia
- River Haven Farm - New York, USA
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Increase recycling of packaging
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Life cycle assessment and management
- Guidelines for the carbon footprinting of dairy products in the United Kingdom
- DairyCo project to establish an annual average carbon footprint figure for GB milk production
- The Path to Sustainable Development – A Strategy for Canadian Dairy Farmers
- Consistent approach to carbon foot printing on dairy farms – United Kingdom
- Tool for the evaluation of on-farm GHG emission (GES'TIM) - France
- On-farm Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of GHG emissions - France
- Life Cycle Assessment and Management - France
- Participating in and supporting research - Sweden
- Environment Protection Agency: General program for 2010 to 2013 - Iran
- Life cycle analysis and Management - Greece
- Carbon footprint analysis and GHG research – New Zealand
- Bega Cheese Limited - Australia
- Processing and Packaging Life Cycle Assessment - USA
- Tetra Pak's contribution to standardization
- Project: greening the supply chain – United Kingdom
- DLG Certificate "Sustainable Agriculture – Fit for the Future" certificate - Germany
- Desktop review of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming - United Kingdom
- Environmental Plan for Dairy Farming (EPDF) – United Kingdom
- Calculating GHG emissions in the dairy sector – SAI Platform
- Milk Roadmap Environmental Stewardship – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap carbon footprinting – United Kingdom
- Milk Roadmap annual sustainability report – United Kingdom
- VDM-Leitfaden Umweltschutz und Stand der Molkereitechnik - Germany
- Saputo Environment policy - Canada
- Analysis of silvopastoral systems in Itambé - Brazil
- Performing Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) within the Dairy Sector - Darigold, USA
- Darigold’s Sustainability Journey - USA
- NDA – Darigold corporate measure - USA
- Key Darigold Sustainability Initiatives - USA
- Lactalis at the environmental level - France
- Safety and environment policies – Royal FrieslandCampina
- Arla Foods work with lifecycle assessment (LCA) and carbon footprint (CF) - Denmark, Sweden and the UK
- Fonterra Emissions Variation Assessment - New Zealand
- Arla Foods work with emissions reductions
- Role of packaging in improving the sustainability of cheese supply chain - Italy
- The carbon and water footprint of the South African Livestock Industry
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Other areas
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Cow of the Future
- The Path to Sustainable Development – A Strategy for Canadian Dairy Farmers
- Progress has been considerable! - USA
- Impact of cow feed on GHG emissions - France
- New Zealand Research Objective: decrease total agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases by 10% per unit of output in 2013 relative to 2004
- Cow of the future – USA
- The Israeli Dairy Cow
- Danone Linus Project: How to reduce menthaneric cows CO2 emission - France
- Dairy Futures CRC - Australia
- Future Dairy - Australia
- The cow of the future: Australian research
- Projects in the national Reducing Emissions from Livestock Research Program - Australia
- First Milk tackles cows’ diets - United Kingdom
- ‘Farming Futures’ – United Kingdom
- The four sources of GHG emissions in a dairy farms - Danone, France
- Reducing GHG emissions by increases in production efficiency - Brazil
- Methane mitigation strategies - USA
- Current research – International collaboration
- Climate Change Central: Canadian Dairy System
- Stonyfield Greener Cow Project - Vermont, USA
- Whole farm systems analysis of greenhouse gas emission abatement strategies for dairy farms - Australia
- Reporting of GHG emissions - Australia
- Abatement Strategies - Australia and New Zealand
- ‘Milch animals of the future’: Improving productivity and reducing emissions - India
- Scientist correspondence on ruminal methane emissions - USA
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Animal health and welfare
- The Path to Sustainable Development – A Strategy for Canadian Dairy Farmers
- Developing management tools - Sweden
- Animal health and welfare - Australia
- Improvements in animal welfare from DeLaval
- Sustainability Opportunities within the Dairy Sector - USA
- On-Farm Practices: Dairy Quality Assurance - USA
- Impact of Dairy Reform on animal health and welfare - Israel
- The Sustainable Dairy Chain - commitment of the Dutch dairy industry
- Tools for Dairying Change: MG FarmC@re Environment Program - Australia
- Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, Indiana - USA
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Bio-diversity
- Chris and Vicki Bell Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Graeme Mabin, Gippsland, Australia
- Jill, Ian and Amy Williams Parawa, South Australia
- Joanna and Paul McCarthy, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
- D'Arcy Family Trust - "Daisybank", Australia
- Protection of bio-diversity and environmental education initiated by private enterprise - Japan
- Effluent management and biodiversity - Louise and Symon Jones, Gunns Plain, Tasmania, Australia
- Planting riverbanks in trees - New Zealand
- The Sustainable Dairy Chain - commitment of the Dutch dairy industry
- Michael and Dawn Waite - Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Country, Industry Association and Company Profiles
- Food safety and security
- Testimonials
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Social and economic impacts
- Packaging recycling and waste recovery as a sustainable industry experience - Uruguay
- Besancon Farms Inc. - Ohio, USA
- Milk Roadmap farm health plans – United Kingdom
- Malawi Dairy Development Alliance Program USAID/Malawi
- Copperbelt Province turned into a “Milk Mining-belt” - Zambia
- Food for Peace Project - Zambia
- Kenya Dairy Development Program (KDDP)
- Creating a more stable supply of milk - Nepal
- Providing training and advice – El Salvador
- Agricultural training and building a livestock asset base – Ghana and Honduras
- Nestlé Morocco - Corporate Social Activities in Milk Sourcing
- Yoggi yalla!® - Arla’s climate neutral drinking yoghurt - Denmark and Sweden
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Farmer profiles
- Slow and steady fertilizers may win the race - Roy and Clinton Roddau, Tin Can Bay, Australia
- Sustainable dairy farming - Robert Grieve, Millbrook, Victoria, Australia
- Reducing and measuring carbon footprint - Graeme Nicoll, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Breeding (genetics) to improve milk production traits - MaryAnn Hortle, Moriaty, Tasmania, Australia
- Economic and sustainably viable long-term whole of farm approach - James and Rachel Downie, Clarendon, Tasmania, Australia
- Reducing erosion and more efficient cropping - Rob Terry, Dairy Plains, Tasmania, Australia
- Solar hot water reduces costs in the dairy - Mark and Joanne Seng, Australia
- Farming more sustainably - Duncan MacDonald, Yolla, Tasmania, Australia
- Disposal of on-farm waste - Grant Archer, Cressy, Tasmania, Australia
- Biological approach to dairy farming - Ben Holloway, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
- Managing farm effluent and enhancing the farm environment - Peter and Bonnie Taylor, Heathmere, Victoria, Australia
- Effluent management and farm habitat - David Lee, Bungaree, Victoria, Australia
- Solar panels reducing demand for energy in milking shed - Peter Telford, Mt Gambier, South Australia
- Efficient use of resources and shelter belts - Trevor Thomas, Victoria, Australia
- Effluent management and biodiversity - Louise and Symon Jones, Gunns Plain, Tasmania, Australia
- Optimising farm management - Lynne and Michael Strong: Clover Hill Dairies, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia
- Wilco Hilhorst, Noord-Steen, the Netherlands
- Nico and Jolande Spinhoven
- Thom and Jasmien Vlooswijk
- Herman and Anja de Ridder
- Ronald and Nancy Vermeer - the Netherlands
- Rod and Libby Swan- Western Victoria - Australia
- Graeme Mabin, Gippsland, Australia
- Kym and Kate Bartlett - South Australia
- Graham and Theresa Bourke - Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
- Errol and Paul Teese Beaudesert - Queensland, Australia
- Jill, Ian and Amy Williams Parawa, South Australia
- Farming in practice - Vaughan and Megan Templeton, Southland, New Zealand
- Joanna and Paul McCarthy, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
- Chris and Vicki Bell Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Michael and Dawn Waite - Ecklin, Victoria, Australia
- Borba Dairy - California - USA
- Haubenschild Farms – Minnesota, USA
- Prairieland Dairy – Nebraska, USA
- Vrieze Farms - Wisconsin - USA
- Besancon Farms Inc. - Ohio, USA
- Hardie Farms - New York, USA
- River Haven Farm - New York, USA
- D'Arcy Family Trust - "Daisybank", Australia
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