Milk and dairy are vital to helping meet the world’s nutritional needs. Good nutrition is essential for people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
People eat for enjoyment and for the nutrients needed to fuel growth, development, health and wellbeing.
Milk and dairy products are a natural, unique and valuable source of essential nutrients with proven benefits to support health outcomes throughout the life stages. As a natural food we see milk and dairy products as an important part of the sustainable food systems of the future.
Nutrition Community Initiatives
Alongside our partners here in New Zealand we will continue to nourish those who need it most and support sustainable community projects. Learn more about just some of the many nutrition community initiatives we have underway.
KickStart Breakfast
KickStart Breakfast is a joint initiative between Fonterra, Sanitarium and the Ministry of Social Development. The programme is designed to positively impact child wellbeing through providing access to nutritious food at school. It's helping give our tamariki and rangatahi a boost to both their school day and their future by ensuring they have a healthy start along with a full puku to keep them alert in the classroom. KickStart Breakfast has served more than 70 million breakfasts since 2009 and has nearly 1,500 schools participating nationwide (as at 31 July 2024).
Feeding New Zealand Communities
Feeding New Zealand communities is a partnership between Fonterra, Feed Out and the New Zealand Food Network. The Big Feed is a 12-hour rural telethon live-streamed on YouTube, aiming to raise money for as many meals as possible to distribute to families in need, bringing rural and urban communities together across the country. Hosted by farmer-led charity Meat the Need, which facilitates donations of livestock and milk from farmers, as well as cash, to turn into meals and distribute to more than 110 food banks across the country.
Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Milk and dairy products provide a meaningful contribution to our nutrition status and health outcomes, with more than ten essential nutrients for relatively low calories, which makes it both nutrient rich and nutrient dense.
As a food nutrition company, we recognise the valuable role nutrient rich milk and dairy products can play in addressing micronutrient deficiencies, improving people’s health and wellbeing across the globe. We wholeheartedly support the the United Nations SDGs and are committed to playing our part by working collaboratively to deliver change at scale.
Zero hunger
- Provide access to safe, affordable nutrition.
- Address malnutrition through products tailored to specific health needs.
- Lift dairy productivity to meet growing nutritional needs in a sustainable way.
Good health and wellbeing
- Responsibly provide products to support the wellbeing of people, including mothers and infants.
- Continue to improve the nutritional profile of our products.
- Promote healthy and informed consumer choices.