This World Food Day, October 16, celebrates the power of cooperatives, "Key to Feeding the World."

Why co-ops?

By banding together in a co-op, farmers can buy inputs, like fertilizer and seed, directly from providers, saving expensive middleman costs. They can efficiently learn new techniques. They can share...

This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction around the London 2012 Olympics.

Each year, the average Kenyan consumes 216 pounds of maize (four times the American average). Although it is a staple, prices for...

This blog is part of a series organized by The Huffington Post and the NGO alliance InterAction to call attention to the crisis in the Sahel, a region in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 18 million people face starvation and 1.1 million children under the age of 5 are at...