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Who Decides What Food Aid Gets Sent?

When disaster strikes and hunger follows, who actually decides what food gets shipped? There's no single master list like the WHO's essential medicines — instead, the sector runs on the Sphere Project's standards, where food must be adequate, appropriate, and acceptable. That last word turns out to be the whole ballgame. This episode walks through the standard ration basket (cereals, pulses, oil, salt, sugar), the engineered fortified blends, and the ready-to-use therapeutic foods that changed how severe acute malnutrition gets treated. Then it digs into the tension between a logistically…

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