Maker of a life-saving peanut paste reflects on the impact of USAID international aid cuts

Mark Moore is the co-founder & CEO of Mana Nutrition, an organization that produces nutritional peanut paste distributed to children experiencing malnutrition. Mana now employs roughly 130 people and has a production plant located in Fitzgerald, Georgia.

By and large, USAID has been Mana’s largest customer. But since the start of the year, it’s been “a kind of a yo-yo effect,” Moore told Marketpace’s Nancy Marshall-Genzer last month.

Back in January, Moore was informed that his contracts with USAID were on pause.