The global food price crisis in 2007-08 had negative implications for food security in Nigeria. Prices of almost all food commodities were higher in 2008 as compared to 2007. Between May 2007 and May 2008, price of major Nigerian staples such as rice increased by 107 percent and garri by about 60 percent. The rise in price has driven the general inflation so high that it rose from 5.4 percent in late 2007 to 9.7 percent in mid-2008. Thus, purchasing power and level of nutrition of the people has been drastically reduced (NISER 2008).