Lawmakers and food manufacturers are pushing USAID to unfreeze funding for ready-to-use therapeutic food to fight malnutrition abroad.

Edesia makes a peanut-butter-like food used to treat malnutrition in children. USAID, its chief customer last year, is being ...

Scores of organizations are grappling with canceled US Agency for International Development contracts and little to no payment from the agency.

Edesia Nutrition was among the fortunate few whose USAID agreement survived a whipsaw couple of months that saw the cancellation of more than 80% of the agency's foreign assistance contracts.

Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown-based nonprofit, has laid off 10% of its workforce due to a lack of government funding. NASA Astronauts splash down on earth in SpaceX capsule after 9 months in ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown-based nonprofit, has laid off 10% of its workforce due to a lack of government funding. Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia ...

PROVIDENCE – Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown, R.I.-based nonprofit that works to feed malnourished children around the world, has laid off 10 percent of its approximately 150 total employees ...

At Edesia Nutrition in Quonset, founder and CEO Navyn Salem is eagerly awaiting payment from the federal government. "We've had the lines shut down for 10 days," she said. "Four hundred and ...

Edesia Nutrition manufactures Plumpy'Nut, a ready-to-use therapeutic food used to treat starvation in children. Despite heavy cuts to USAID, Edesia was told their funding would stay in place.