by Mindy Belz
Cover Story Sidebar | While the policymakers toss billions between Africa's aid and debt
ledgers, two French nutrition experts scored a breakthrough in
famine relief while sitting at their breakfast tables. Pediatric
nutritionist Andre Briend and Michel Lescanne, chairman of the
French food company Nutriset, long dreamed of a high-protein paste
that could replace the ubiquitous milk powder that is a problematic
mainstay in the world's refugee camps and famine-stricken zones.
The powder requires clean water, a