Acadia took its name from the garden of the gods in Greek mythology. Farming some the most fertile land in North America, Acadians never suffered from epidemics of scurvy, typhus or cholera.

KENYA: Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly half of the world’s uncultivated land but the continent has not utilised the resource to secure food security. The land is estimated at more than 202 ...

It gave Iowa one of the most fertile soils on the planet and enabled it to become one of the largest producers of corn, soybeans and oats in the United States over the last 160 or so years.