Aquaponics is an intensive fish and vegetable production system operating within the food-water nexus and recycle water at a rate up to 95 to 99% . The system produces fish and crustaceans in fishponds with water from the ponds used to irrigate the vegetables that will be cultivated in a medium other than the soil. Aquaponics production system not only contributes to solving climate change challenges but also produces fish and vegetables using less land and water. The production system gives households control over some components of their food systems as they deci de what to produce and how it will be produced . Aquaponics system is believed to be important to nutrition security that has been a challenge to Africa where more than half of the population cannot afford a healthy diet (WWF, 2019). This te chnology is handy as part of the continent ’s strategy to produce 50% more food by 2050 to meet its food and nutrition needs (WWF, 2019). Researchers concur that aquaponics is a candidate food production strategy that can contribute to production of enough food and improve the livelihoods and wellbeing of the population through the sale of excess fish and vegetables. Th is can be part of the answers to persistent climate change and variability challenges which are constraining the existing food systems, limited capacity of land due to degradation and high cost of inputs. There is growing evidence showing that existing fish and vegetable production systems cannot meet the demand of which climate change and variability is further complicating the fish and vegetable production capacities . As was also noted by Swap et al, (2002) in South Africa there is a near collapse of freshwater fish production due to harsh environmental conditions. Interestingly in the whole of South Africa, Limpopo ranks number one in terms of potential for aquaponics production nationally but is only contributing 1% of aquaponics national outputs (DTI 2020). Globally the demand for fish is rising and aquaponics is expected to meet 60% of the demand (DTI 2020). South Africa has witnessed a steady annual growth of 8.6% of the aquaponics outputs between 2006 and 2016 (DTI 2020). This paper presents the findings from a study undertaken with households participating in aquaponics projects that were implemented with selected households in Vhembe District Municipality of Limpopo Province in South Africa between 2017 and 2022 . The specific objective of the paper wa s to analyse the contribution of the aquaculture to participating households’ food systems . The data was collected in a survey where a structured questionnaire was administered to 3 0 participating households and 30 households who were not participating in aquaculture production. The quantitative data was analysed using a one-way Analysis of Variance. The results show that that adoption of aquaponics technology result in remarkable improvements in households food systems. It was concluded that aquaponics adoption and wider uptake may go a long way in contributing to the country’s achievement of selected SDGs. As was also noted by Love et al. (2015) aquaponics farmers have a guaranteed ready market for the fish and vegetables hence can be a viable strategy to also improve incomes of smallholder farmers. By and large the technology is pro poor hence a sustainable way to reduce poverty an unsustainable food system among the rural resource poor farmers . Its adoption is therefore being recommended to reduce expenditure by households on food basket which cost more than 65% of the household income of which the savings could be invested into other household needs as was also suggested by Ronquest -Ross et al. (2015).