Topic: Plumpy'nut
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Somalia famine revives debate: is it acceptable to patent aid?
Somalia's famine has boosted demand for the malnutrition treatment Plumpy'nut. But a patent curtails production – and has sparked intense debate over balancing business interests with humanitarian need.
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Study: Eating bugs could reduce global warming
For much of the world, eating insects — officially called entomophagy — is neither strange nor disgusting nor exotic.
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Doing well by doing good? It's not easy.
A business class in California helps a US entrepreneur bring peanut paste to Haiti's hungry kids.
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As famine looms in Ethiopia, only the neediest get food aid
Aid workers must now choose who's the most malnourished, and experts say the crisis could become as bad as the infamous 1984 famine.
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