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Nicolas Dahan, Professor of Management, Seton Hall University

How Nutriset, a French company, has helped alleviate hunger and create jobs in some of the world’s poorest places

Michel Lescanne, founder and president of the French company Nutriset, holds Plumpy'nut packets in 2005. Robert Francois/AFP via Getty Images

About 19 million children under 5 around the world suffer from severe acute malnutrition every year. This life-threatening condition kills 400,000 of them – that’s one child every 10 seconds.

These numbers are staggering, especially because a lifesaving treatment has existed for nearly three decades: “ready-to-use therapeutic food.”

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