Dairy

The Dairy Working Group is made up of a group of buyers and processors working towards sector transformation initiatives.

Projects, working groups and regular exchanges enable members to build consensus, test ideas and evolve solutions together — resulting in approaches that are more relevant, trusted and scalable than any one organisation could develop alone.

The Sustainable Dairy Partnership

To promote alignment and recognise and reinforce existing approaches at national and company levels, we have developed the Sustainable Dairy Partnership: Business to Business to streamline the relationship between buyers and processors. The Sustainable Dairy Partnership (SDP) is built on the Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF) and its Global Criteria on 11 sustainability principles.

Using existing structures and leveraging dairy processor management systems that are already in place – as well as relationships with farmers – the SDP enables processors to provide evidence and show continuous improvement.

The SDP aims to reduce audit fatigue and save costs by using existing resources to deliver direct benefits across the value chain.