The manual provides a simple planning methodology and framework that focuses on the issue of linking farmers to market outlets for their produce particularly identifying their marketing infrastructure needs. The manual provides a simplified aid to understanding the physical implications of marketing linkages, based on a regional planning approach. The manual is not a training manual per se, but (has and) can effectively be used as a training aid  to set up training programmes dedicated to appropriate infrastructure to connect rural and urban areas. The manual has been used extensively in developing rural and urban linkage infrastructures.