Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam

In a signing ceremony as part of a meeting on ‘sustainable food choices’, held in The Hague, on 12 June 2017, representatives of the Dutch Dairy Association (NZO), the Dutch Federation of Agriculture and Horticulture (LTO Nederland), the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Wageningen University & Research endorsed the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam.

IDF World Dairy Summit – WDS2016 in Rotterdam

The Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam was the highlight of the IDF World Dairy Summit (IDF WDS2016), which took place from 16 to 21 October in Rotterdam and was hosted and organized by NNC-IDF. This annual highpoint of the global dairy sector gathered about 1,200 people from all over the world. Not only CEO’s and employees of dairy processing companies, dairy farmers, suppliers and scientists participated, but also stakeholders from outside the global dairy sector.The Summit programme consisted of various sub conferences, covering the wide scope of IDF work. These included Dairy Farming, Dairy Science &Technology, Nutrition & Health, Food Safety Standards, Sustainability, Marketing and Economics. The general theme of IDF WDS2016 was “Dare to dairy”, also connected to the issue of how dairy can contribute in a sustainable way to feeding 9 billion people in the future.