Before the Canada Land Inventory, farmers had to rely on instinct and chance to find the best land Imagine immigrating to western Canada to farm in the decades before maps could tell ... as being ...

How the region became a cradle of civilization is no accident of history, but rather an example of how geography ... most fertile stretches of land in the world. A colorful, abstracted map shows ...

Food production takes up almost half of the planet's land ... the fertile land that still remains, scientists warn. The global impact of farming on the environment is revealed in new maps, which ...

This fascinating map from National Geographic shows the proportion ... humans have now cultivated most of the world’s arable land and are pushing up against the limits of freshwater consumption.

They include geography and agriculture, commerce and transportation, as well as history. China's most fertile farmlands ... The concentration of fertile arable land in the east made it easier ...