Can Plumpy Nut end World Hunger?

By Kelsey | October 21st, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Plumpy Nut is a peanut butter, powder milk past that is saving Niger children from dying of malnutrition. I heard about it on this evening’s 60 Minutes.

Here’s a report on PN from UNICEF:

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4 Responses to “Can Plumpy Nut end World Hunger?”

1. Kent Says:
   October 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 am

   They made it sound so simple. Could it really be that easy?

2. Kelsey Says:
   October 23rd, 2007 at 6:54 am

   I’ve always heard that World Hunger is more of distribution problem than lack of food. I bet Plumpy Nut has a good shelf-life and should be a lot easier to distribute than actual food. It sounds like a good temporary idea. Long-term, I don’t think handouts are an answer to anything.

3. Francesca Wilson Says:
   November 26th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

   I think our American children should receive this kind of information. It is a good lesson to be had. In my Spanish class we discussed staying in shape as the central focus of chapter five. I asked my students to find out the following:
   BMI,the health problems associated with Fast food restaurants, Bulimia, Anorexia Nervosa, Cholesterol (good and bad, malnutrition and world hunger, Medicins sans frontier and their work worldwide, then we spoke of Plumpynut.
   The students reflected on the money they spend in superfluous purchases… then… we read aloud the Project Peanut Butter and how the per capita income in Malawi, SubSaharan Africa, is $44 per year… they looked at their $70.00 + tennis shoes… what a wake up call!

4. Kelsey Says:
   November 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

   Francesa, sounds like you’re teaching your kids way more than Spanish. Awesome! We need more teachers like you.

   Eventually, I would like to adapt some of my WAIW? findings into various lesson plans for teachers to use. One of these days…

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