labor force often living below the poverty line and forming part of the majority of the rural poor in many parts of the …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …