Food Market (Civ6)

Food Market
Building of the Modern Era
Introduced in Rise and Fall
Unlocked by	Replaceable Parts
Cost
Production	465 380
Production	465 380
Maint.	1
Maint.	1
Requires
District	Neighborhood
Effects
+3 Food

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The Food Market is a growth-enhancing building in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. It is built in the Neighborhood district (or one of its replacements).

Rise and Fall

• Effects:
  • +3 Food
• Restrictions:
  • Limit of one per city (even if the city has multiple Neighborhoods).
  • Cannot be built if Shopping Mall has already been built in one of this city's districts.

Gathering Storm

• Effects:
  • +4 Food
  • +2 Food additionally when Powered
  • Base Load: 1 Power
• Restrictions:
  • Limit of one per city (even if the city has multiple Neighborhoods).
  • Cannot be built if Shopping Mall has already been built in one of this city's districts.

Strategy

If you think trading 465 Production for 3 Food sounds like a bad deal, you're definitely right. Prior to Gathering Storm, there are no circumstances under which building a Food Market is preferable to building a Shopping Mall, which provides Gold, Amenities, and some Tourism to spur you toward a Culture Victory. The Food Market's lowered Production cost and increased Food yield in Gathering Storm make it somewhat better, and you may want to build one in a city with a Neighborhood if you're not going for a Culture Victory. Even then, this building is still generally a low priority for most cities, since Food is not exactly the most valuable resource at this point in the game. The only times you should make it a higher priority to build Food Markets are when playing as Yongle (whose cities benefit from having the largest Population possible) or developing a city to maximize domestic Trade Route yields (which usually requires a Population of 28 for all the specialty districts).

Civilopedia entry

Far from the fluorescent-lit commercial food production hubs of today, early open air markets were a place for farmers to offload excess crops and livestock. Customers, in turn, would be able to inspect food for (relative) cleanliness.

Food markets would become a necessary feature of cities which moved further from areas of food production—part commerce, part civic endeavor to keep the population fed. Some markets were constructed alongside the cities in which they were founded; for instance, merchants have been selling cheese and meat at the Suq Bab al-Lūq in Cairo since 969 CE.

See also

• Market (Civ6)
• Food Market in other games