Armed conflicts and climate change are fueling a global hunger crisis.

Tens of millions of children under the age of five are malnourished.

Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS Weekly introduces us to a woman on a mission to change that.

Our most basic need in life is food and nutrition.

So without that, we really aren't setting children up for their best chance that they would have in life.

Giving a child a chance in life serves as the compass for Navin Salem.

She's on a quest to end malnutrition

for children around the globe under the age of five.

Her company, Edesia, named after the Roman goddess of food,

manufactures these squeeze packets of a fortified peanut butter

called Plumpy Nut.

The nutrient-enriched paste doesn't need water or refrigeration

and is easy for kids to feed themselves.

It has been proven to take a child from the brink of starvation to salvation in just six to eight weeks.

Salem has traveled the world witnessing the results of Plumpy Nut firsthand.

They have to eat one packet in the clinic in order just to prove that they can eat it and

they don't have complications. These children don't look anything like the ones that you just saw

in the severe acute malnutrition space.

They are already being interactive. They're laughing. They're playing with you. What's the magic in it?

It's fortified. It has nutrients and calories. It tastes good. I mean, even if you're a very hungry

child, the food needs to taste good because children,

no matter where they are, they can all be picky.

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