Abstract:
Climate change is the main issue affecting global food security. To address the effects of
climate change on agricultural production and food security, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
has been pushed as a solution. The purpose of this study was to get an understanding of how
CSA contributes to food security in the Lesotho Thaba-Tseka Urban Council. Two theories, the
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework and Resilience Theory, served as the theoretical
foundation for this investigation. The theories' guiding principles supported how the results
were interpreted. The study used a qualitative research methodology and the interpretivist
paradigm. A case study design was used, and interviews were conducted with 30 purposively
sampled smallholder farmers engaging in climate-smart agriculture in Thaba-Tseka Urban
Council. According to the findings, implementation of CSA methods including keyhole
gardening, conservation agriculture, water collection, suitable animal housing, and training
by extension service providers have a big impact on food security. The findings also showed
that, despite the existence of numerous tested, workable CSA response alternatives and related
polices, Lesotho does not have a CSA policy. The study concludes that CSA helps to ensure
food security and suggests that Lesotho develops a CSA policy. The study recommends that
smallholder farmers use CSA techniques to the greatest extent possible in order to improve
agricultural productivity and raise their prospects of achieving food security
