USAID’s flagship agricultural project in Nigeria is under the U.S. Government's Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, also known as Feed the Future.

In Nigeria, USAID's agriculture project focuses on small-scale farmers, known as smallholders. USAID builds their skills to increase their incomes; improve productivity and nutrition; and provide food security for Nigeria’s rural poor through innovative approaches. Smallholder farmers are trained to use techniques that will increase access to improved seeds and optimal use of fertilizer, adequate finance, better water management, appropriate technology, extension services, and improved nutritional use of grown or purchased food. The project uses proven private sector demand-driven market interventions, and focuses on constraints in the agricultural value chain.