ABSTRACT
This study looks at the impact of hunger on children and adolescents and the potential of critically appraised school farms as a possible panacea to a foreseeable global famine. Research reports have strong indications that the world will be hit by hunger. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased the indicants of food insecurity with a looming danger of global hunger or starvation that is likely to adversely affect children and adolescents biologically, psychologically, and socially. Though the study has a universal appeal, Nigeria was adopted as the focal point. The study adopts a mixed approach of using secondary data from reliable data and extracting information through interviews and observation. Evidence from research shows that Nigerian children and adolescents are likely to be plagued by hunger with substantial negative consequences if governments and others take no proactive measures in good time. The benefits of school farms as a tool for food sustainability and vocational and pedagogical instruments, among others, are evident in this study. In addition, this study encapsulates the urgency of prioritizing and empowering the school farm system to boost food security to save people’s lives, particularly those of children and adolescents, from impending devastating hunger.
