The year 2008 has been dubbed “the year of global food crisis”
by many writers probably because the supply of food around the world
dipped precariously leading to sharp increases in food prices around the world
that triggered riots and related problems. Certainly many countries particularly
in Africa, Latin America, and Asia have been depending on food handouts for
decades but the situation appears not to have been as acute as it was in 2008.
The need for a new paradigm in food aid has been noted by some NGOs that
have initiated effort to make food aid more pragmatic and have broader benefit
to recipient countries. On a more extensive and sustained level, there is the
need to give young people in developing countries an early orientation in food
security by emphasizing agriculture generally and food production in particular
in the school curriculum. The paper uses Nigeria as a case study and hopes
recommendations herein can be applied in other developing countries.