Securing food systems: Pathways of COVID-19 impact on food security for smallholder farmers in Nigeria

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COVID-19 significantly worsened food insecurity among smallholder farmers in Nigeria through disrupted access to labor and seeds.
Using structural equation modeling, the research highlights the critical links between access to essential inputs and food security outcomes.
Smallholder farmers, crucial for national food security, face heightened vulnerability to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Efforts to improve resilience should focus on maintaining functional input supply chains and labor mobility for farmers.

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Analysis reveals COVID-19 worsened food insecurity in smallholder farmers, indicating urgent need for resilient input supply chains.

Ebuka Christian Orjiakor (2025) studied this question.

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