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The
2011 World Dairy Summit was held in
Parma, Italy from 15-19 October with the theme
"Sustainable Food Security".
A
series of joint conferences were organised by the IDF with
the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United
Nations to examine this subject, which is of ever-increasing
significance to the entire world dairy community.
A
conference on environment followed up on the latest achievements
regarding the life-cycle analysis for greenhouse gas emissions
from the dairy chain and other conferences featured key topics
such as animal health & welfare and animal feeding to
address dairy sustainability issues from different perspectives.
A new Round Table on dairy supply chain issues gathered active
representatives from all parts of the dairy chain and the
ever-popular World Dairy Leaders Forum will gave delegates
the chance to hear the views of key players form the world's
major companies and raise issues with them face-to-face.
A farmers dinner
was also held on October 16th .
The
Summit was located in Italy's "food valley" where
the famous Parma ham and many cheeses are produced so this
providing the perfect opportunity to participate in the technical
tours to local farms and factories and social tours th\t had
also been organised to visit this beautiful area.
Daliy Newsletters
were issues at the Summit, highlighting the key events frm
each day and copies of these can be viewed below:
You
can find out full information about this event at http://www.wds2011.com
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