This market is considered one of the largest of its kind in the world (150 acres). It features a garden center, wholesale and retail activities, and is a major marketing hub and distribution point for fresh produce in the Southeast U.S. The Atlanta Market also has a restaurant, welcome center and USDA Federal-State office. You can find almost any seasonal fruit or vegetable here. Vegetables include tomatoes, corn, okra, avocados, beets, oranges, grapefruit, peppers, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, etc. There are also butchers, nurseries, and other products. Cars drive right up to the shops and produce is offloaded directly into the vehicles. Most shops sell in large quantities. They want to sell a minimum of a basket or bushel.
The City of Forest Park is utilizing a strategy of energizing a public private partnership to improve its economy by using the State Farmers Market as the cornerstone of an overall Livable Center revitalization effort. The goal is to encourage the Department of Agriculture, with a $3 -6 billion component of the Georgia economy, to grow the existing underutilized facilities in Forest Park into a full service agribusiness hub for the Southeast Region of the United States. This would create additional employment and business generators, strengthening retail, entertainment, office, and housing land use developments. Agribusiness interests in the state of Georgia would greatly benefit by having a full service economic, policy and distribution headquarters adjacent to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport (HAIA). This location would bode well for expanded international import export to South America which would provide a direct monetary benefit to the state agricultural producers. Farmers throughout South Georgia, the constituency of the Department of Agriculture, would have a convenient business class passenger rail and people mover system networked to their state headquarters and to the airport. Implementation of the Livable Center has the potential to evolve into a multi billion mixed use facility that is nationally unique and an economic, engine self-sustaining for the state agriculture industry.
How can you become involved in finding solutions to feed the hungry?I can educate myself about the condition of the poor, what life is like for one-third of the world’s population, and how socio-economic and political forces impact the quality of life in different parts of the world. I’ve considered joining a mailing list, where I can learn a lot from organizations monthly letter and quarterly Field Report. That would help me become an advocate. Then I can share what I’ve learned with friends and family. Also talk about the issues and solutions with my church and community. Thinking bigger... I would like to start supporting Feed the Hungry projects that I’m passionate about.
In you, opinion, is this activity sustainable? Explain.
Yes because it’s helping people in need without hurting while taking on a green mind set towards the environment.
What do we have to do to feed the one billion people? Or is this the solution? If not, what is?
Resolving world hunger by only increasing food production and not dealing with core causes of hunger such as poverty will not ease the circumstances that created poverty in the first place. Poorer counties need to be taught how to produce their own food so that they can reduce their reliance upon other counties to decrease starvation in their country. Like I stated in my paper, “In a world with so many technological advances being used to make our lives more comfortable by providing such luxuries as internet, cell phones and satellite television, it seems only reasonable that we would use the same technologies to assist us in providing for the needs of the world’s population. Providing food for the masses while stretching our natural resources are necessities if we are to survive.”
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