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The long-standing partnership between RSDA and Denmark Lesotho Network has consistently supported smallholder farmers and their organisations in Lesotho, most recently through the Lesotho Agriculture and Food Forum (LAFF) platform, elevating farmers voices and providing a mechanism for advocacy and engagement with national government. RSDA is now well positioned to expand their support to farmers and this intervention seeks to build the resilience of farmers to the climate change impacts which they are increasingly experiencing, and which bring risk of eroding hard won livelihood and poverty reduction gains. The target group (smallholder farmers) as well as the thematic area (agriculture) are heavely impacted by the increasing variability in climate patterns in Lesotho. 60-80% of the popilation in Lesotho depend on the outputs of prodominantly rain-fed, subsistence farming. The nature of their agriculture practices leaves them vulnerable to the increasingly erratic variations in seaso