Background to the Study Food security is an essential part of the international development agenda, as stated in the Rome Declaration of the World Food Summit in 1996 and reaffirmed by the participants in the World Food Summit five years later (FAO,1996 & FAO, 2001). The Millennium Declaration reflected the World Food Summit target by making hunger part of the first Millennium Development Goal (UN, 2009). UN has echoed food security once again by making it Goal number 2 of the 17 Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the Rio+20 conference (UN, 2014). Food security is a fundamental human right (UN, 1997) and the most crucial of all basic needs (UN, 2009). It is upon this that 16 th October every year is World Food Day and the World Food Day theme for 2014 was Family Farming: "Feeding the world, caring for the earth" (FAO, 2014).This shows how food security continues to be a major global challenge and the need to address it especially in Sub Saharan Africa where the levels of food production are declining. The 2017 theme focused on investment in food security and rural development (FAO, 2017). Emphasis was put on combined strategies and application of indigenous knowledge being one the strategies. Any investment towards food security and rural development without considering IAK is likely to fail as (Brokensha, Slikkerveer, & Warren, 1995)put that ignoring people's knowledge is almost to ensure failure in development. Globally 2 billion people lack food security; about 1 billion people are hungry at any time in the world and of these 254 million people are found in