Nigeria is losing too much of the food it produces long before it reaches the people who need it most. Across farming communities, crops that take months of labour never make it beyond the village. They rot in sacks on broken rural roads or go bad inside overheated trucks not built for perishables. By the time much of this food arrives at the markets, it is already unsafe for consumption. For a country battling rising hunger and record-high food prices, this level of waste has become one of the major threats to national food security.