South Atlanta, like many urban areas across the United States, faces the challenge of food deserts, where residents lack access to affordable and nutritious food options within a reasonable distance. This synopsis aims to explore the impact of the food desert on the community and propose potential solutions to address this pressing issue. 

The South Atlanta food desert presents a significant challenge to the health and well-being of its residents, as well as to the overall vitality of the community. By implementing a combination of community-driven initiatives, public policies, and innovative solutions, we can work towards creating a more equitable food landscape where all residents have access to the nutritious foods they need to thrive. 

To evaluate food insecurity and its effects on our community we considered our day-to-day constructs and identified listed some of the known impacts on the community and this school and placed them in a sustainability barrel?

We group these factors into three different categories including economy, environment and social to determine the greatest limiting factor impacting the sustainability, or the lack thereof, of this food system.

After discussing the notion that there is critical work needed in each of the three categories, we then identified the greatest limiting factor in this community's  -  SOCIAL.  Listed below are the determinates we gathered that led us to the conclusion regarding the question of this food system's sustainability.