Fatima Jubril lost her husband when the militant group Boko Haram attacked their farm in northeast Nigeria last September. Fleeing her village with her four children, she found shelter in a displaced ...

Through an innovative program, parents in Senegal had easy access to a therapeutic food that's a boon for malnourished kids. Now there are shortages. Health specialists say U.S. aid cuts are to blame.

Whether or not you believe in global warming or climate change, the last few years have been riddled with extreme weather patterns around the globe. "It's brought both floods and droughts," says Navyn ...

Ocean State Job Lot is helping Quonset Business Park neighbor Edesia Nutrition get thousands of portions of life-saving therapeutic paste to starving children in a war-torn region of Africa. The ...

Navyn Salem didn't have experience in building factories or food distribution when she started a non-profit, Edesia, and created the first U.S. factory to produce a life-saving packet called ...

Should a revolutionary humanitarian food product be protected by commercial patent, when lifting restrictions might save millions of starving children? That is the moral conundrum at the heart of a ...

Like most tales of great invention, the story of Plumpy’nut begins with a eureka moment, in this case involving a French doctor and a jar of Nutella, and proceeds through the stages of rejection, ...