When finished, its golf courses will stretch into the farmlands of Kanata--first settled by Welshmen.
At the same time, dwindling farmlands and, especially in China, urbanisation are curbing supply.
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Monsoon rains are critical for India and other South Asian countries as most of the farmlands are rain-fed.
Without protecting our farmlands, some day we will be wondering why all our produce comes from Latin America.
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Wuqiao County, in the flat farmlands of Hebei Province on the North China Plain, is home to dozens of acrobatic schools.
Set in a monumental amphitheatre of peaks, ridges and jagged stone bluffs, it's far more rugged than the sweeping farmlands at Appenzell.
Born in 1918, Mr Graham grew up in one of the heartlands of bible-thumping Christianity, the farmlands outside Charlotte in then-impoverished North Carolina.
The June-September monsoon is significant for India's overall economy as most farmlands are rain-dependent and more than half of the country's workforce is employed in agriculture.
Initially cleared by loggers, much of it was turned into pastures and farmlands as Brazil went from being a food importer to a global agricultural powerhouse.
This is because the country is spoilt with a long coastline and an abundance of mountains, valleys, rivers and rolling farmlands, plus one of the lowest population densities in Europe.
When I asked Hank Hoell recently about the state, he waxed on about hiking the spectacular Cascades, the dreamy coastal towns and the rich farmlands of the green Willamette Valley.
"The future of our farmlands, our forests, our health, our climate - these are the biggest threats humanity faces and they are far more important than concerns over liability, " he said.
"Many accuse the dentally defective rat of being a nuisance that wreaks havoc on farmlands, roads, lakes, streams and tree plantations, " she said, adding that a country's symbols can "change over time".
Terry Matthews wouldn't know "hang ten" from "high five, " but in his office in the farmlands outside Ottawa the transplanted Welshman uses surf imagery for catching the big ones in telecom, as he did in the 1990s at Canada's Newbridge Networks.
On the border of Spain, with the great spiky Pyrenees mountain range as backdrop, the Midi-Pyrenees is an area characterized by magnificent architecture, medieval villages, river valleys, rolling farmlands, and food that is fabulous as only the French can deliver.
In the farmlands northeast of Austin I drive through a series of comatose old villages with names like Heidenheimer, Schwertner and Walburg, where the only place still trading is an indoor biergarten, bedecked with Bavarian flags, cuckoo clocks, beer steins and military memorabilia.
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