The study investigated environmental degradation and poverty among women of two communities in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. This study adopted the cross-sectional survey research design. Primary data were collected with the use of structured questionnaire from 200 women from Nembe LGA. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and found that the mean age of the women respondents in Nembe LGA was 47 years, majority of about 78% are married and about 54.1% had secondary school education out of which about 82.4% are members of Community Development Committee (CDC). The result of the findings revealed 5 ways in which environmental degradation contributed to inadequate yield of farming activities such as deforestation and forest degradation, climate change, charcoal production and consumption, overgrazing, agricultural depletion of soil nutrient through poor farming activities. Based on the findings, the study among others recommended that government and critical stakeholders should be deeply involved in curbing environmental degradation and vandalism of oil structure for safe water for drinking and other purposes and that women farmers in degraded soil and polluted water bodies should be supported with subsidies of credits to cushion the effects of environmental threats in their farming activities.