L.A.Times: Pasadena Retiree Fights Malnutrition in Afghanistan—with Soybeans

​The former Nestle nutritionist started a nonprofit that gives free seed to thousands of farmers and offers to pay for the harvest. Far from his Pasadena home, nutritionist Steven Kwon stood before Afghan government officials and agronomists in Kabul three years ago, extolling the virtues of protein rich soybeans as a way to curb the rampant malnutrition in the war-torn nation.