Can plumpy ut® end world hunger?
plumpy’nut™ (note the absence of upper-case letters — the new new thing? But I digress) could be the best invention ever for relieving hunger in the Third World. It’s a peanut-based paste, sort of like Nutella in texture, that comes in a sealed foil pouch with a two-year shelf life. What makes it revolutionary is that there’s no need to add water, which in poor countries is itself a potent disease vector. plumpy’nut™ is already saving lives. Roger Thurow’s story about this breakthrough product appeared on the front page of this past Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal: it follows. In Battling Hunger, A New Advance: Peanut-Butter Paste Plumpy’nut doesn’t use water and is easily distributed; big deployment in Darfur Balancing profits with aid Four-year-old Sadia Mohamed Yousif walked 25 miles with her family to the Krinding refugee camp here. Violence ravaging the surrounding Darfur province had driven them from their farm and Sadia was near starvation when aid workers began feeding her a new
