A nutrient-dense peanut paste long used to prevent child starvation in disasters across the globe can mean the difference between life and death in a drought-hit region in Kenya. However, UNICEF says the conflict in Ukraine is making ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) more expensive to manufacture and procure. "If we ran out of these, more deaths would be recorded very soon," says James Jarso of aid group World Vision.

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