Sustainable Dairy Production

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It aims to stimulate process innovations, taking into account environmental, economic and public relations benefits for companies. Topics covered include: How to set up a sustainable production line How to quantify the carbon foot print of a dairy product by using life cycle analysis Current technologies to improve the carbon foot print What measures can be taken to reduce the global warming potential of the farm Reduction of water use in dairy production Marketing sustainable dairy products Bench marking of dairy products against other food products Potential future technological developments to improve the carbon foot print for the following decades

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It aims to stimulate process innovations, taking into account environmental, economic and public relations benefits for companies. Topics covered include:* How to set up a sustainable production line* How to quantify the carbon foot print of a dairy product by using life cycle analysis* Current technologies to improve the carbon foot print* What measures can be taken to reduce the global warming potential of the farm* Reduction of water use in dairy production* Marketing sustainable dairy products* Bench marking of dairy products against other food products* Potential future technological developments to improve the carbon foot print for the following decades

Preface ixContributors xi1 Introduction 1Peter de Jong1.1 Sustainability and the dairy industry: hype or trend? 21.2 Quantifying the issue: measuring footprints 41.3 Communication: telling the whole story 51.4 Structure of this book 6References 82 Greenhouse gas emissions from global dairy production9Theun V. Vellinga, Pierre Gerber and Carolyn Opio2.1 Introduction 92.2 Methods for calculating emissions 112.3 Total emissions of the dairy sector 142.4 Discussion 26References 283 Life cycle assessment 31Maartje N. Sevenster3.1 Introduction 313.2 Current life cycle assessment 323.3 Life cycle assessment in application 373.4 Life cycle assessment of dairy products 413.5 Life cycle assessment in strategy and policy 50Acknowledgements 51References 524 Sustainability and resilience of the dairy sector in achanging world: a farm economic and EU perspective 55Roel Jongeneel and Louis Slangen4.1 Introduction 564.2 Dairy economics and sustainability 624.3 Sustainability evaluation of the EU dairy sector 714.4 Agricultural policy 794.5 Conclusion 83References 855 Dairy processing 87Arjan J. van Asselt and Michael G. Weeks5.1 Introduction 875.2 Key unit operations and their water and energy use 895.3 Possibilities for optimisation 1015.4 Revisiting dairy processing: breakthrough technologies114References 1176 The role of packaging in a sustainable dairy chain119Erika Mink6.1 Introduction 1206.2 Packaging sustainability: a growing market expectation1236.3 Packaging's contribution to dairy sustainability1306.4 Global alignment of packaging requirements: implications fordairy 1396.5 A company response: the example of Tetra Pak 1506.6 Outlook: growing importance of economic and social pillarsof sustainability 158References 1607 The business case for sustainable dairy products163Jaap Petraeus7.1 Introduction 1637.2 From a process-driven to a product-driven approach 1647.3 Success factors for creating more sustainable processes andproducts 1697.4 Implementation of sustainability within the company 1757.5 The business case for sustainability 1807.6 Policy and strategy adopted by different dairy companies1837.7 Looking to the future 1837.8 Conclusion 184References 186Appendix: Overview of the sustainability policy and strategy ofvarious companies 1878 A case study of marketing sustainability 191Grietsje Hoekstra, Corine Kroft and Klaas Jan van Calker8.1 Introduction 1918.2 What is sustainability? 1938.3 Motivations for sustainability 1968.4 Choose your battles: sustainability strategy issues 1988.5 Getting to work 2038.6 Communicating sustainability 2128.7 Conclusion 217Acknowledgement 218References 2199 Cradle to Cradle for innovations in the dairy industry221Wil A.M. Duivenvoorden9.1 Introduction 2229.2 A tool for C2C®-driven innovation (PROPER model)2299.3 Cradle to Cradle for the dairy industry 2329.4 Conclusion 238References 24110 The future of sustainable dairy production 243Peter de Jong10.1 Future relevance of sustainable dairy 24310.2 Next steps in chain innovation 24410.3 Communication and marketing 24710.4 Business case: people, planet and profit 24710.5 Conclusion 249References 250Index 251