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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Plumpy'nut shortage for child feeding in Afghanistan

Funding shortages for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) threaten supplies of plumpy'nut for infants in Afghanistan. Plumpy'nut is a special peanut paste which is highly nutritious and requires no preparation. It is a ready-to-eat family of foods (including supplementary plumpy, plumpy'doz) that can save infants from deadly malnutrition. In October Challiss McDonough of WFP explained,

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