DSF 2025 – 2030 Strategic Plan
The DSF’s 2025–2030 Strategic Plan builds seamlessly on the organization’s previous five years achievements and is the outcome of an extremely valuable and wide-ranging consultative process.
A major new step is the recognition of the contribution of buffalo milk to global milk production. The DSF Governors have agreed a new Vision for the DSF that reflects this.
The DSF Governors recognised this next Strategic Plan required a degree of consistency combined with a targeted and dynamic set of actions that would make the DSF the globally representative sustainability reporting framework for dairy as was the aspiration from the very beginning. The 2025 – 2030 Plan introduces three new priority focus areas: The development of a revised Value Proposition and reporting review and development, a focus on low to middle income countries, and new and dynamic DSF resourcing models required to deliver the DSF aspirations.
Download to explore the detail in the Strategic Plan and the 18 deliverables for the next five years.
DSF Annual Sustainability Progress – 2024 Calendar Year Reporting
The DSF has published the annual sustainability progress reporting results for the 2024 calendar year. Covering environmental, economic and social sustainability through 11 Criteria and associated indicator metrics, this report provides an aggregate analysis of the sector’s performance. The DSF currently accounts for 29% of global (cow & buffalo) milk production which is equivalent to 52% of the global formal milk market. New this year, progress for each Criteria is reported with five year trend lines, and GHG data has been updated for the global dairy sector demonstrating the change over time in both intensity and absolute emissions by the sector.
Download the DSF Annual Sustainability Progress 2024 Calendar Year Reporting. Also available in Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Case Studies
The DSF is developing a growing range of case studies that we hope will be valuable to prospective, new and existing Members, providing an outline of the process of implementing an aspect of the DSF, with key learnings and outcomes.
Implementing the DSF: four case studies are available from Dairy for Social Impact, a project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Global Dairy Platform (GDP). Pilots in Kenya, Rwanda, Vietnam and India have been written up capturing the experiences of implementing the DSF to provide guidance for others.
Examples of Members’ Sustainability Programs: these case studies are for Members only and are examples of the positive work addressing one of the DSF criteria. They can be downloaded from the DSF Members area of the website. We hope these will inspire other Members as they seek to continuously improve.
DSF Community of Interest Groups
These groups provide a platform for DSF Aggregating, Implementing and Stage 1 members to share and compare actions that they are implementing across the globe with the aim of sharing successes and finding solutions to common challenges. Initiated in 2021, there are currently three groups: Animal Care, GHG Emissions and Biodiversity & Nature meeting regularly. Each Community of Interest is facilitated by a DSF member, supported by the DSF secretariat and group members input into what topics they would like to discuss. Contact the DSF for more information.
The Dairy Sustainability Framework by the Numbers
The DSF accounts for 29% of global milk production
604,879
34 million
4,343
703,956
2.1 million
265 billion
26 million+
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Banas Dairy- Every corner we turned was another initiative under the leadership of my friend Sangram Chaudhary, demonstrating the value of dairy to society in many ways. An industry definitely worth investing in! Thanks for the education!
@shahMeenesh; @banasdairy1969
JMF committed to helping the DSF through the Stage 1 Pilots. Working sessions and field visits clearly show dairy is also an enabler for complimentary enterprises. Thanks to JMF team & our partner NDDB for their support. @ShahMeenesh, @shreeja_mmpcl; @medha_coop
DSF Stage 1 Pilots are super powerful. Another great learning experience at many levels with Shreeja and their women dairy farmers. None of this would be possible without the support and commitment from NDDB! @ShahMeenesh @shreeja_mmpcl @medha_coop
Chairman, NDDB, Dr @ShahMeenesh, met Mr Brian Lindsay, Director, @DSF_Dairy, along with senior NDDB officials to discuss the progress of the DSF Stage 1 pilot in India. With NDDB’s support, the pilot is being implemented in the milksheds of @shreeja_mmpcl and NDDB-managed
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