Source: Barb Glen, Producer.com, March 15, 2018
Alberta’s cities have an insatiable appetite for farmland, a recent study from the Alberta Land Institute reveals.
In the Edmonton-Calgary corridor, urban development had swallowed 4,763 sq. kilometres of land as of 2013, a 52 percent increase from 1984, when the figure was 3,127 sq. km.
Most of the land developed around cities from 2000-12 was prime cropland.
