Food security has become a major problem in Kenya particularly in rural households. Accessing enough food to meet nutritional and dietary requirements is still not possible to most households’ majority of which can manage only one meal per day. Although hunger has dropped to almost half what used to there in the last twenty years, it still persists in some areas in the world. Today 1 out of 9 people in the world go to bed without a meal because of their inability to access food. The situation is worse in South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the previous Millennium Development Goals strived to rally countries of the world to end hunger it still persisted. Today the Sustainable Development Goal number 2 has have made eradication of hunger a priority but still acknowledging that the problem still persists. In Kenya it is estimated that over 10 million people cannot access adequate food. Empowering men and women by supporting hem to access education can mitigate the problem of hunger. The objective of this study was therefore to assess the role education plays as an empowering tool to accessing food security in rural households in Lugari sub-county. The study was anchored in human resource theory and used a quantitative approach in which data was collected from a sample of 260 household heads by use of interview schedule and analysed by use of Chi-Square. The findings show that education is an empowering tool that can mitigate the recurrent issue of food unavailability and hunger in most rural households. The study concludes that education is a necessary tool if we have to alleviate hunger. It recommends that the government enforces further access to education as an empowering tool to build the ability to mitigate against hunger. The study will benefit the government and policy makers in strategic national food planning programs and other national arms of planning.