Current Program Highlights
Nigeria and Cambodia Showcase WISHH’s Global Aqua Strategy
WISHH Builds Nigerian Aquaculture Through Strategic Partnerships In Nigeria, WISHH helps train professionals at Animal Care Laboratories, a leading business that offers livestock feeds, animal diagnostics and animal health products. Although Animal Care’s primary business lies in the poultry sector,
Partners Build a Trained Aquaculture Workforce in Cambodia
Cambodian fish farmers are now hiring better-trained graduates thanks to close cooperation between ASA/WISHH’s U.S. Department of Agriculture Food for Progress project, the Royal Government of Cambodia and Kansas State University. The effort includes the Royal University of Agriculture, WISHH’s
WISHH Represents U.S. Soy at Nutrition Security Roundtable
ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Executive Director Gena Perry shared the benefits of U.S. soy during a nutrition security roundtable led by Edesia Nutrition in Rhode Island on Nov. 3. Edesia hosted the discussion and a plant
ASA/WISHH Updates Cambodian Ag Ministry at FAO World Food Forum
ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program updated the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture on WISHH’s aquaculture work while participating in United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) World Food Forum in Rome in October. The 2023
WISHH, Soybean Organizations Take Stage at World Food Prize
ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Program appeared on stage along with the United Soybean Board and the U.S. Soybean Export Council for a session attended by 1400 participants of the 2023 World Food Prize in Des Moines.
Join ASA’s WISHH Program at its 2023 World Food Prize Panel
ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Program joins a panel at the 2023 World Food Prize alongside the United Soybean Board, U.S. Soybean Export Council and Iowa Soybean Association. The discussion, titled “Sustainable Solutions for Every Life, Every
Cracking a Code for a Healthy Future
Eggs For a Healthy Future is the Theme of World Egg Day on Oct. 13, 2023 WISHH’s September poultry trainings have given 40 Ghanaian egg producers as well as U.S. soybean growers more reasons than ever to celebrate World Egg
WISHH Introduces Updated Soy Value Pyramid
The 2023 version of WISHH’s Soy Value Pyramid highlights the many opportunities for soy to generate improved nutrition as well as economic growth in the 29 countries where WISHH works in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. First introduced 20
WISHH & Partners Celebrate Soy Protein in Uganda
ASA’s WISHH program put soy’s benefits for health and economic growth on stage and on television in Uganda in September. Kentucky soybean grower Daniel Adams, a member of the WISHH program committee, along with WISHH Executive Director Gena Perry and
WISHH Facilitates Partner Tour of Edesia Nutrition
ASA’s WISHH introduced University of Maryland-Eastern Shore and Delaware State University agricultural research and business students to the important role of U.S. soy protein for global food security when the students traveled to Edesia Nutrition in Rhode Island last week.
ASA/WISHH Partnerships Launch Innovation in Cambodian Aquaculture
Fish farmers and extension agents circled the latest in aquaculture innovations for Cambodia in August at an ASA World Initiative for Soy in Human Health aquaculture field day. The educational event was an aquaculture kicking-the-tires opportunity. While the attendees’ fish
WISHH’s Craig Williams Speaks at Purdue Food Security Roundtable
WISHH Secretary Craig Williams described how U.S. soy is a protein powerhouse during his featured remarks at a global food security roundtable that brought Indiana’s top agriculture leaders to Purdue University on September 6. The Eleanor Crook Foundation partnered with
Cambodia’s AgriMaster Feed Mill Sees 10-20% Sales Growth for Aqua Feed
AgriMaster General Manager Rady Chea is projecting a 10-20% increase in demand for the company’s aquaculture feeds in 2023-2024. The Cambodian feed manufacturer and WISHH strategic partner is a U.S. soybean meal buyer for its feeds that are sold throughout
BBC News Features WISHH Partners in Cambodia
BBC News Global News Podcast has highlighted partners of the American Soybean Association’s WISHH program in a report on how sustainable technology improves the lives of Cambodians. The series, Female Founders: Green Tech in the Blue Economy, discusses the solar
In Nigeria WISHH’s 16-Year Partnership Lifts U.S. Soy Trade
Alltech Nutrients Limited, a Nigerian food company, continues to prefer U.S. Soy for quality and innovation thanks to its 16-year partnership with ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program. Through WISHH’s long-term trade and development partnership, the company
Business Leaders from 3 Continents Form WISHH’s Largest Trade Team of the Summer
Key business representatives from prominent soy food companies and distributors on three continents comprised the largest trade team delegation for ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Program this year. Company leaders from Latin America, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa
Youth Lead Aquaculture Toward a Sustainable World
August 12 is International Youth Day. The 2023 theme is Green Skills for Youth: Toward a Sustainable World. David Samveasna applied to work for ASA/WISHH as a result of his concern about Cambodia’s declining populations of wild-caught fish. Then age
ASA/WISHH & USB Support Aquaculture Programs in Africa
See why there is a waiting list for aquaculture trainings offered by ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program at Flosell Farms in Ghana. In a new video, WISHH highlights why the real-world internship experience is part of
ASA/WISHH’s Eggcellent Protein Progress in Ghana
The results keep growing from the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Program’s USDA Food for Progress Poultry Project that concluded its activities in Ghana in 2019. Ghanaian poultry farmers, like Mathew Bonso, continue to make progress and recognize the
Building Future Leaders for Aquaculture
ASA/WISHH’s global aquaculture strategy is feeding fish and helping fill the growing demand for aquaculture professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the year 2000, aquaculture production in sub-Saharan Africa has grown by 11% annually on average — almost twice as fast