<p>Over the years, the Ilaje community has been confronted with the burden of environmental degradation and conflicts leading, to its description as a weeping geographic space. This study explored oil-induced impact of environmental degradation and conflicts on food security, the coping strategies and panacea. It adopted qualitative approach, and used in-depth interviews (IDIs) to collect data from 30 purposively selected respondents. It used snowballing alongside purposive sampling as complementary sampling technique. It also used three focus group discussions (FGDs) with five members per group selected from among the IDI participants and personal observation to collect data for the study. It analyzed the data via thematic content analysis. The study reveals new insight demonstrating that the relationship between environmental degradation, conflicts, and food insecurity is not linear, but cyclical and mutually reinforcing in the Ilaje’s context. It identified oil industries triggered environmental degradation, pollution and conflicts, as the drivers of environmental resources crisis and food insecurity in Ilaje. Amongst others, it recommends transformative approaches that involves moving beyond aid toward justice-based environmental peacebuilding and building informal peace infrastructures across community units, and points to occupational shifting and borrowing to survive as some of the grassroots coping strategies.</p>