Markets are both the rules and norms providing the legal and
institutional context within which economic transactions take
place, as well as the physical loci of such transactions. In
considering the production environment, HarvestChoice focuses on
the physical and spatial dimensions of markets in goods and
services. Of particular focus is the likely extent to which
farming households are physically integrated with or isolated
from input and output markets and a range of service providers.
In this section, we present selected information on two
important base layers of information with regard to improved
understanding of the context of challenges and opportunities.
Firstly, information compiled about the distribution of
infrastructure for later integration into our analysis of
development (e.g., in the evaluation of both market access and
the notion of "development domains"). HarvestChoice uses data on
infrastructure in a number of ways, primarily related to
assessing the physical accessibility of markets and