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Sep 29, 2016
Eduardo Gonzalo, deputychief of Party, World Vision, Nicaragua cooks with INCAPARINA, a commercial brand of corn/soy blend made with U.S. commodities in Guatemala.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Cochran Fellowship Program, under the Office of Capacity Building and Development (OCBD), provided a grant to the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (ASA/ WISHH)program, to organize a week long training and networking program for people working on school nutrition programs in Nicaragua and South Africa.
Both countries use soy protein, and the Nicaraguan programs get thousands of tons of U.S. corn-soy blend (CSB), a traditional food aid commodity. WISHH also included in the team, a product development specialist from Alimentos S.A., Guatemala, which buys thousands of tons of soy flour and corn from U.S. exporters to make a local version of CSB which they sell both commercially and to food aid institutions like the World Food Programme.
The U.S. soy - Guatemala processing – Central American institutional feeding value chain is increasing processed U.S. soy exports.
