As environmental challenges grow and with the recent incidence of flooding across several Agricultural landsin Nigeria as well asthe COVID-19 pandemic effect on the economy, one of the biggest challenges facing the world is feeding growing urban populations while attending to the social, economic, and environmental needs and aspirations of cities. This review portrays the benefits of backyard farming in feeding individual households and also as a key tool for sustainable development. If every household can at least grow most of the vegetables and stable crops it consumes, the level of hunger and food insecurity can be addressed to some extent. This paper used an analytical approach to review the term “backyard farming,” methods or variations in backyard farming, benefits of backyard farming and constraints to adoption of backyard farming system among households. Key notes: Backyard Farming, sustainable practices, food security. Introduction According to the United Nations 2019 data report, it is said that between now and year 2050, more than half of the entire world’s population growth will take place in Africa. In the next three decades, more than 1.3 billion people will be added to Africa, with an estimated 70 per cent of the population living in urban areas (United Nations [UN] 2015; UN 2019). The food security status of Nigeria is seriously in doubt. According to World Food Council Report, a growing number of lives are being lost due to hunger and malnutrition. It was estimated that the rate of increase in the number of hungry people in the world in the 1980s was five times what it was in the 1970s. By 1989 the total number of chronically hungry people was estimated at 550 million people. The figure was over 1 billion people before 2002. Africa was reported to have experienced the largest increase in hunger cases between 1970 and 2002. Before 1991 and 1998 the number of foods insecure people declined by 76 million in China and increased by 40 million in all other developing countries, African countries inclusive (IFPR1 2002). Urban agriculture has been advocated worldwide as a strategy to provide food and many other benefits to city dwellers, especially as the world faces different economic crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss and recent flooding. Urban dwellers are in a better position to create remarkable success in the Agricultural space without the limitations of space. In Nigeria for instance, we have one of the finest weathers that supports the growth of crops and rearing of animals on any scale.