A fundamental paradox in Nigeria is that: about two-third of the Nigerian people are poor despite living in a country with vast potential wealth. Poverty wears an absolute look in Nigeria and most Africa countries. In Sudan, particularly in the Darfur area, the level of poverty is so high that millions of women, children and men have been subjected to extreme precarious existence. The crisis in agricultural production in Africa is perhaps most portrayed by the food production per capital which has apparently declined almost continuously for over three decades. Many African countries have tried to solve the problem of food insecurity by importing foodstuffs. These countries have had to contend with public financial crisis. A typical example is Nigeria which used the windfall from oil by the early 1980’s to import almost everything that was consumed in the country. While this was being done agricultural production depleted to dangerous levels. At the same time skyrocketing increase in the prices of commodities made life an uphill task for most Nigerians, triggering a slide in their social and economic fortunes. Recently, demands for cereals and tubers for feeding livestock and producing bio-fuel has generated food crisis in the world, with more damaging consequences for Africa where the poor depend mainly on cereals, roots and tubers for food. The global food crisis has added a new and critical dimension to food insecurity in Nigeria; the poor are experiencing a new level of hunger and deprivation. It has been predicted that Nigeria will not survive a severe food crisis. One significant factor that has surfaced in all explanations of the food crisis in Africa is poverty and its relation to agricultural output. Pinstrup- Anderson, Pandya-Lorch and Rose-grant attest to this when they argued that the projections that many millions of people will suffer from hunger and its debilitating consequences may be avoided if we mobilized the revolutionary developments in information technology and biotechnology for the benefit of the poor and; if we can harass the political will to adopt sound policies for eradicating poverty. It is obvious the magnitude of food insecurity in Nigeria is closely related to the systematic policy biases of the ruling class. Source:www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2017/01/politics-of-poverty-in-nigeria.html?m=1