25 Jan 2010 --- Soyatech, LLC, the leading soybean and soyfoods industry intelligence resource, announced that it is organizing Soy Innovation Africa: Cultivating Potential in Emerging Markets in collaboration with Soy Southern Africa, National Soybean Research Laboratory and the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health. This event will take place on August 26-27, 2010 at The Westin Grand Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.

“This conference is designed to provide entrepreneurs and industry leaders in emerging economies with the tools to produce, source, process and utilize soybeans and soy products efficiently,” says conference chair Philippe de Lapérouse (Managing Director with HighQuest Partners and in charge of its Global Food, Agribusiness and Biofuels practice), “The Soy Innovation Africa program will offer attendees different perspectives on trends and developments in the global soybean market, as well as new technologies and strategic insights from international leaders on a range of topics including crop production, soybean processing, soyfoods, biofuels and animal feed.”

Plenary sessions will address:

* global supply and demand forecast for soybeans, oilseeds and grain;
* potential for wider cultivation of soybeans in Africa;
* soybean’s role in ensuring global food security; and
* opportunities for soybeans in small enterprise.

Breakout sessions will provide an opportunity to delve deeper into such issues as production, transport and processing of soybeans; the production and applications for soybean ingredients; and the creation and utilization of soybean-based foods, animal feed and biofuels.

“We are excited to be an original and primary supporter of Soy Innovation Africa,” says World Initiative for Soy in Human Health Executive Director Jim Hershey, “While soccer’s World Cup will have finished by the time we arrive in South Africa for the conference, we still anticipate a ‘world cup’ of soy industry leadership in Cape Town next August!”

Soy Southern Africa, which will bring key leaders with a diverse set of expertise to Soy Innovation Africa to discuss the use of soybeans and soy products in emerging markets, has joined the alliance producing the event in order to broaden its members’ knowledge base and industry relationships. The National Soybean Research Laboratory will tap its wealth of global soyfoods’ industry research in order to contribute to the conference program.