The quality of land surrounding the major urban centres of Canada,the United States and Britain

Prime agricultural land is the most productive and important foodland in a nation. When disproportionate amounts of prime farmland are located near to the major metropolitan areas of a country, national productive capacity can be adversely affected by continued urbanisation. The disproportionate location of prime agricultural land adjacent to major cities is compared in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. The bias is far larger in Canada than it is in the U.S. or Britain. Investigating the more urbanised regions of these countries, the bias of prime land with urban areas is found to be still more accentuated in Canada.