ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the connection between poverty and hunger, and argues that poverty is a threat to food security and that hunger is mainly a distributional problem. The chapter further argues that the country's hungry, rural poor are not prone to crime, violence, and other social vices, unlike their cities' counterparts. It concludes by drawing inferences on Nigeria for its neighbors with which she has a mutual relationship. The chapter begins with a background section meant to provide cursory information on Nigeria related to this study. It then raises some propositions and presents the findings of a study. It then analyzes the poverty and food security interface using the Nigerian case study. The other background information necessary for this chapter is a cursory view on the number of Nigerians living either above or below the poverty line, beginning from the independence period up until about 2011.
