The study examines security challenges and food crisis in the Nigerian state in recent time. The study seeks to investigate the extent to which the incessant attack in farmers adversely impacted on the production of food. The study adopts the Democratic Peace theory and Relative Deprivation theory as framework of analysis. Secondary data was mostly used in the study due to the nature of research problems. While interview was employed in the study for primary data. The interviews were conducted in the mostly affected Local Government Areas in Ekiti State, such as Ikole, Oye, Ise-Orun, Ilejemeje, Ikere and Emure LGAs. Five (5) interviewees were selected from each of the six (5) LGAs to elicit information from them. The paper argues that the abysmal failure of government to address challenges, such as unemployment, poverty and clear distinction between indigenship and settlers among ethnic nationalities, ultimately resulted to indiscriminate gracing of animals on farmland and violent crimes against the peasant farmers all over the country. The study further reveals that unwholesome activities of militia groups resulted to total discouragement on the part of peasants who would have invested to much on their crops and plantation only to find it destroyed by another group of selfish individuals. To avoid acute shortage of food in circulation and hungers, the study recommends the formulation and effective implementation of policies and programmes capable of addressing the root causes of insecurity in Nigeria, especially farmers.
Keywords: Food Production, Herdsmen, Insecurity, Security, food crisis
