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That extra land isn't available. While a more efficient diet could feed 50 percent more New Yorkers on local food, the study found that would still only add up to 32 percent of the state's population. We continue to believe that local food systems' productive power is consistently underestimated, ignoring the volumes of food that can be produced on marginal land and even in our cities. Nonetheless, New York appears to be an example of a place that must, for now, rely on food from farther afield. Which raises the question: What does it mean when the way we build our cities makes it impossible to live sustainably?-JBM.

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