Symposium 2019
Presentations
Jonathan Hanks, Incite
Setting the scene:
Cultivating a sustainability culture
What is sustainability and the food, water and energy nexus?
Session 1
Sue Viljoen
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
“The journey of water from farm to fridge”
Have you considered the true source of the water that you use in a factory or farm setting? And what role can the entire dairy value chain play in reducing water risk for the future sustainability of the industry? Join me for this journey of discovery.
Henk van der Hyde
Danone
Reduction of water
Preserve and renew the planets’ resources.
Session 2
Craig Galloway, Trace and Save
Why is sustainability at farm level important?
“The greatest environmental impacts of dairy occur at farm level. Dairy farmers are subject to an increasing price-cost squeeze, threatening the viability of many farms. Consumers are demanding the implementation of more socially acceptable practices. These are risks for the whole dairy industry. The only way to address these challenges is through sustainable agriculture.”
Session 3
Claire Lipsett
Talbot & Talbot
Water & energy recovery from wastewater at the factory level
The recovery of water and energy from dairy processing wastewater not only significantly decreases operating costs, increases independence from the national water and electricity grids (and the associated shutdowns) but also greatly enhances environmental sustainability. Where historically energy and water recovery were too expensive recent technological advancements and a changing water and energy environment make recovery both economically and operationally attractive.
Colin Ohlhoff
Fair Cape Dairies
Steps Towards Sustainable Nutrition
As the global demand for food continues to grow, it is our responsibility to ensure that we adapt our production systems to preserve the natural environment and advance nutrition security for future generations. The incorporation of sustainable practices in everyday dairy operations contributes to reducing environmental impact and improving efficiencies. This presentation will highlight a few opportunities and initiatives within the local dairy production chain which could contribute towards achieving our greater sustainability goals.
Session 4
Wayne Witthoft
“An allernative approach to packaging”
To ensure sustainability in dairy, most of the packaging
conventions need to be challenged. Re-visiting some by-gone packaging formats offers the dairy industry an entry into the circular economy.
Loren de Kock WWF & Colin Ohlhoff Fair Cape Dairies
A Circular Plastics Economy: how can packaging in the dairy industry follow a circular approach?
What a circular economy is, why it is a global movement and how this can and is used for a systemic shift in the plastic packaging value chain. What are the current packaging materials and designs used in the dairy supply chain and what are the opportunities to shift this to a circular approach to support recyclability and/or re-use.
Articles
A New Direction
by Dr. Linda Pretorius
“The future is going to look different, because it will have to,” said Jonathon Hanks, facilitator at the South African Society of Dairy Technology (SASDT) symposium days in July 2019. And with sobering figures showing rising food demand amid increasingly constrained environmental resources, the statement could not be more accurate.
The Perfect Storm
by Michelle de Lange
Are sustainability initiatives helping the dairy industry to change direction amid the significant transformation of the planet? With the world population growth projected to reach 8,5 billion by 2030 and eventually exceeding the planet’s carrying capacity in terms of the food-water-energy nexus, are we heading for the ‘perfect storm’?
Symposium Info
