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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Plumpy'nut and the Roadmap To End Global Hunger

When you read the Roadmap to End Global Hunger legislation, the alarming statistics on child hunger and malnutrition leap off the page.

"The United Nations Children's Fund estimates that 9,200,000 children under the age of 5 die every year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, and that child and maternal malnutrition contributes to approximately 6,000,000 deaths of children under the age of 5 annually."

What can we do? There is a special food that can largely alleviate this massive hunger crisis. This food is called plumpy'nut, and it is produced by Nutriset in France, Edesia in the United States, as well as other organizations around the world.

Read the full article at Examiner.com