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

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

The key to the for-profit company’s successful partnership with governments, international agencies and humanitarian, nongovernmental organizations is how it handled its patent.
Avoiding peanuts is currently the only way to prevent allergic reactions. sharyn morrow/Flickr

Peanut allergy treatment is on the horizon – but don’t drop the EpiPen yet

Rates of food allergies have increased over recent decades and are at an all-time high. While we don’t know the full extent of the allergy epidemic, the rate of hospitalisation for food allergies has quadrupled…

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