Abstract: An air-drop carton comprising a plurality of sachets, each individually containing food, medical supplies or other aid-related contents in granular or preferably powdered form, and a wrapper which packages the sachets to form and define the so-called carton. Each sachet is so sized, shaped and filled or part-filled that, when released from the confines of the wrapper at air-drop altitude it tends to feather-fall rather than free-fall earthwards. The wrapper is configured and so arranged about the sachets, that while it tends to hold the sachets in their cartoned format as they sit in an aircraft immediately prior to being air-dropped, the wrapper is designed to disintegrate from the cartoned format sufficiently to release the sachets for individual flight after the carton leaves the aircraft. The invention also discloses a method of air-dropping food, medical supplies or other aid-related contents and a sachet intended for use in an air-drop carton.