Effects of food insecurity on achievement of chemistry students

This research work examined the Effect of Food Insecurity on the Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Chemistry students in Sabon Gari Local government Area of Kaduna State. Its main objective is to examine the Effects of Food Insecurity on Academic Achievement of Students and to find out whether food insecurity is gender sensitive or not. Food insecurity remains one of the major obstacles to human well-being affecting all areas of child's growth and development, including achievement in the classroom. In this study, a survey research design was used with an EFIS Questionnaire as data collection instrument with three hundred and six (306) respondents from six selected secondary schools from Sabon Gari local Government Area of Kaduna state chosen as sample using Krejcie and Morgan table of determining sample size. The analytical tools used were mean, standard deviation and analysis of variance using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS, Version 20). The result obtained shows that food insecurity has no significant effect on student's academic achievements in the study area, since the P value is higher than the alpha level of significance 0.05.