This study examined the food security situations of the Nigerian’s major farm households using Ekiti
State, Nigeria as a case study. The study comprised a random sample of 160 farm households selected across
16 villages in the 2 Agricultural Development Project (ADP) zones of Ekiti State. The USDA approach for the
analysis of farm household food security was used to measure the intensity of food severity among the farm
households. Results showed that only 12.2% of the farm households were food secure, 43.6% were food
insecure without Hunger, 35.9% were food insecure with Hunger (moderate) and 8.3% were food insecure with
Hunger (severe). Cassava, yam and their products were shown to contribute immensely to the food security
status of the farm households. Constraints faced by farm households in the production of major staple crops
were mainly those of high cost of transportation, poor receipts from farm output sales, inadequate storage
facilities for yam and inadequate processing facilities for cassava. The study therefore recommends among
other things that credit and or subsidy should be made available to farmers.