%0 Journal Article
%T Food Security in Nigeria: The Role of Peasant Farmers in Nigeria
%A AW Attah
%J African Research Review
%D 2012
%I 
%X Food security has become an issue of global concern in the recent time. Nigeria, with her huge endowed natural and human resources is not spared. Nigerian food crisis is a product of colonial disorientation that has led to neglect of the peasant agriculture and food crops sub-sector as well as over reliance on cash crops production and the oil sector. Nigeria still has the potentials to be food-secure if the following strategies are adopted and implemented: rural development, provision of easy access to basic farm inputs, adequate budgetary allocations to agriculture particularly to the food crop sub-sector, enunciation of appropriate policies for food crop sub-sector, political stability, reduction in rural poverty, and peasant farmers  education. Key Words: Food security, Disorientation, Peasant farmers, Role, Strategies
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/afrrev/article/view/83605