“Stock is running critically low,” Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit Action Against Hunger in South Sudan, tells WIRED. On July 1, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially closed, leaving the State Department to administer some of its initiatives while wholly killing countless others. “Nobody’s picked it up.”Rhode Island–based Edesia has been filling 2024 orders for its RUTF product, Plumpy’Nut, at a slowed-down pace. This July it finished fulfilling those contracts, and it has not received word from the State Department about future orders. (USAID made up 85 percent of Edesia’s customer base; for MANA, it was over 90 percent.)