The therapeutic food is designed to bring malnourished kids back from the brink. A new order from the U.S. after months of mixed signals is good news for the Rhode Island factory that makes it.

The order will be enough to provide 818,000 severely malnourished children in African countries life saving nutrition.

Hunger exists on a spectrum. On the one end is food insecurity, where people are forced to adjust to fewer meals. As food becomes scarce, the body consumes its own reserves. The journey from hunger to ...

Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts ...

Kano State government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have procured 2,948 cartons of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) worth N1 billion to feed about 17,000 severely malnourished ...

It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.

For many in Gaza, daily life is a struggle for survival.

UNICEF, the world’s biggest buyer of ready-to-use therapeutic food, bought less than one-third of its supplies from those nations in 2011. That share climbed to two-thirds in 2022.

Therapeutic food composes such a small fraction of U.S. spending that it amounts to a “rounding error,” according to Moore. Nobody thought cuts would meaningfully help balance the federal budget.

Therapeutic food composes such a small fraction of U.S. spending that it amounts to a “rounding error,” according to Moore. Nobody thought cuts would meaningfully help balance the federal budget.

A global hunger monitor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario was unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with malnutrition soaring, ...

Therapeutic food composes such a small fraction of U.S. spending that it amounts to a “rounding error,” according to Moore. Nobody thought cuts would meaningfully help balance the federal budget.