This month, with funding from USDA’s FMD program, the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program (ASA/WISHH) hosted a seminar in Guatemala titled, “Functional Properties of Soy in Food Applications and Processing Soy Protein into Meat, Analogue Using Extrusion Technology.” Dr. Mian Riaz led the course …
This month, the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (ASA/WISHH) program, with funding from USDA’s Foreign Market Development (FMD) program, sent a technical consultant to Guatemala to conduct a baking seminar. The seminar, held in conjunction with the largest wheat mill in Guatemala, promoted the use …
This week, the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (ASA/WISHH) nutrition consultant Cade Fields-Gardner and Africa Project Officer Josh Neiderman traveled to Mozambique to monitor the ASA/WISHH component of the McGovern-Dole Food for Education project awarded to Planet Aid. The team visited several schools in the …
Reprinted from Fargo, ND Inforum June 17, 2014 LAKE PARK, MINN. – Shafiqur Bhuiyan picked up an old corncob left on a soybean farm Tuesday, turning it in his hand and inspecting it. “I think this is very interesting,” he said. Bhuiyan, the president of a biscuit manufacturing association in …
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The WISHH program focuses technical transfer and behavior change efforts on weak links in agricultural value chains, delivering growth to local economies and improved nutrition to people and animals. The result of WISHH's work paves complementary trade routes that grow U.S. soy markets.
See WISHH's SuccessesU.S. soybean growers send WISHH as their Trailblazer for Trade through long term market development. WISHH develops agricultural value chains in emerging markets, creating trade and long-term demand for U.S. soy. WISHH programs fuel economic growth and value chain development in developing countries and discovers the common ground shared in the supply and value chains between U.S. soybean farmers and international supply chain partners that make affordable, nutritious, and delicious foods.
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The World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program partners with government programs such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Agency for International Development (USAID) to:
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The World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program pulls international and domestic partnership coalitions together. WISHH supply chain partners have seen success through the technical assistance and education that WISHH has provided, while domestic partners are able to be connected to international markets across the globe through WISHH.
WISHH implements activities and programs that can provide cost-effective and sustainable solutions to developing markets. To learn more about what WISHH is doing around the world, click here.
