Abstract

HIV/AIDS, poverty and agriculture all have effects on the women in the African culture, based on the fact that the activity of the women in agriculture and the yield cannot translate to food sufficiency and provide a means of lively hood for her and her children thus leading to the incidence of poverty. It is believed that the men folks, the low level of agricultural productivity, family dependence and poor implementation of government programmes have all not been fair to women thereby exposing and making them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. This is as a result of the fact them in other to survive they engage in unwholesome activities such as prostitution.  This paper examines the rate of food insecurity and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, and its effect on the Nigerian women, focusing on the role of the government in promoting policies that will improve gender sensitivity especially in agricultural sector, which will aid the economic independence/status of the women, and effectively reduce the menace of poverty, food insecurity and HIV/AIDS.

Key words: Food Insecurity, food security, HIV/AIDS, poverty, agriculture.