Eight of the DSF Indicator Metrics are based around implementing a proactive improvement (Management) plan. Implementing and Aggregating Members that do not have access to the required ‘Management Plan’ can now benefit from proforma templates, developed by the DSF and released in March 2024, to support Members’ reporting commitments.

These plans (in MS word)…

PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) was a research programme that concluded recently and aimed to learn from pastoralists about responding to uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global challenges. There is a super animation to describe the project – watch here. To find out more about the project’s outputs…

Dairy Sustainability eNews from Dairy Australia – February 2024  

Dairy Sustainability eNews from Dairy Australia – March 2024

If you have sustainability materials or news you would like to share, please contact the DSF Secretariat.

• UN global climate report: a stark reminder of the urgent need to leverage agrifood solutions 
• Potassium depletion in soil threatens global crop yields
• Hotter Aussie cows to head indoors
• The rise and fall of oat milk: has the trendiest alternative finally fallen from grace?

UN global climate report:…

• P2DNZ Animal Nutrition Workstream Workshop, The Netherlands - 22-24 April 2024
• International Day for Biological Diversity – 22 May 2024
• World Milk Day – 1 June 2024
• World Environment Day – 5 June 2024
• GDP Annual Meeting, Paris – 14 October 2024 (morning)
• DSF Annual Meeting, Paris (with hybrid option) – 14 October 2024 (afternoon)
• IDF World Dairy Summit, Paris – 15 – 18 October 2024
• Nourish CEO Event, Paris – 17 October 2024
• UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29), Azerbaijan – 11 - 22 November 2024
• World Soil Day – 5 December 2024

If you have any forthcoming events that you think would be of interest to the DSF community, please send details to the DSF Secretariat and we will do our best to include them in future newsletters.