Several soybean groups – including the United Soybean Board, Iowa Soybean Association, Soy Foods Council, WISHH, and World Soy Foundation – jointly sponsored the luncheon today at the World Food Prize symposium. There was a record crowd of more than 750 in attendance, including over 100 students participating in the WFP Youth Institute.
Appropriately, the event today is held on World Food Day, and the World Soy Foundation was able to announce a new donation by Silk soy milk, a WhiteWave Foods brand, according to foundation director Jim Hershey. “Silk WhiteWave – one of the major processors of soy dairy products here in the US – has committed $75,000 over three years to the World Soy Foundation to continue its work in Ghana which is building its own school feeding program.”
Hershey says the project will feed 200-300 children per day for a school year, and he encourages other individuals and companies to join the efforts of the foundation – you can find out more at worldsoyfoundation.org.
I talked to Jim about the foundation, as well as the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) Program, which he also directs – and about how producing soy biodiesel also produces protein to feed the world.
Listen to that interview here:
wfp-08-hershey.mp3
You can also download the audio with this link: Jim Hershey at World Food Prize (mp3)