1. What type of food insecurity (lack of food or lack of nutrition) is the most prevalent in Nigeria?

2. What factors foster food insecurity in Nigeria? [Possible answers: dry season, lack ofgovernment support, price instability]

3. What conclusions can you draw about the role of government in ensuring food security from this video?

• Lack of food is the most prevalent in Nigeria

• A shorter rain season curtails the planting and cropping seasons, lowered crop yield
• There is a growing population that requires more food
• Political instability - Islamist insurgency causing and farmers to abandon their land
• Modernized plants were never delivered
• Electric supply is erratic
• Absence of diesel to fuel the dams
• Rising costs of diesel and fertilizers that are not affordable for poorer farmers

• The government has done little to assure farmers can recover their cost
• There is little control over the prices of commodities in the market, the prices are extreme
• Less than half of the strategic reserves were completed
• Oil revenues were used for urbanization

• Land fragmentation can be solved by land consolidation and the land can then be more effectively because technology can then come into play to increase crop yield and increase the number of crop harvests yearly 
• Not enough land. Land can be reclaimed and the government can place their focus on ensuring that land is reserved to grow crops so that the prominent issue of food shortages can be addressed first instead of developing land for other uses like housing and factories

• Food insecurity due to political instability because wars are usually because of ideological differences that cannot be easily solved by even third parties and mediators because values and thinking of people cannot be easily changed
• Food shortages due to weather and climate. Natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, floods and long period of droughts can destroy food crops in both less developed and developing countries, thus affecting the hungry poor in these countries. The food shortages problem due to weather and climate cannot be solved easily as it cannot be controlled.
• Poverty trap. People living in poverty cannot afford food for themselves and their families, this make them weaker and less able to earn the money that would help them escape poverty and hunger.
• Most international cooperations would not be willing to help with providing help for LDCs because there is no incentives for them and they are instead on the losing hand when they provide help
• Rapid population growth. Families in LDCs does not have education on family planning so the birth rate so high and more food supply is needed. The people in LDCs will remain hungry as there is not enough food.