The study assessed the poverty status, identified the determinants of poverty as well the poverty coping strategies among farming households in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling was used to select 150 farming households. The Costs of Calorie method and Discriminant Analysis were used to determine the incidence of poverty as well as its determinants respectively. The incidence of poverty among the sampled households was found to be high and the major determinants of poverty include household size, number of income sources of the household head, number of household members employed outside agriculture and the number of literate adult males and females in the household. The major poverty coping strategies include skipping of meals, reduction in the quantity of meals served and engaging in wage labour. The study recommends that the farming households should be effectively involved in the formulation of strategies for imparting knowledge on family planning to the farming households. In addition, to diversify the number of income sources of the household heads, the skills acquisition centres should be extended to all rural areas in the state and the existing centers should be further strengthened.