Climate-Smart Crop and Mechanization Systems Scaling-up (CSCS) The project establishes rural centres to enable smallholder producers accessing climate-smart crop production technologies and mechanisation services as well as connecting them to markets. These centres are called Save and Grow hubs after the FAO Save and Grow approach for sustainable and climate-smart crop systems intensification. Through these hubs the project aims at overcoming the following prevailing constraints that prevent smallholder farmers from adopting sustainable and climate-smart crop systems: (1) inadequate knowledge of sustainable farming practices through novel extension and information sharing approaches; (2) inadequate access to sustainable inputs through the provision of agronomic inputs; (3) inadequate availability of sustainable mechanisation services through provision of mechanisation services that avoid delays in crop establishment and yield penalties. Moreover, the project emphasises on the use of ripping / reduced tillage services during the off-season, before the peak rainy season to have a more equally distributed farm power demand in both dry and rainy season. Strengthened links to markets ensure profitability and provide off farm business opportunities for youth and reduce drudgery for women farmers.