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2.0.. agro: Monoculture:
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such as the vast monocultures we create through agriculture, efforts are already being made to restore native ecosystems,
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or conventionally bred cassava-rather than vast grain monocultures. With an enormous variety of crops, fields and farmers, there will be a variety of different practices used (including the investigation of wild-type relatives of staple crops),
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and seen the patchwork of farmland monocultures where there used to be wild savannah, or the islands we have grown out of the sea off Dubai,
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Modified seeds and large monocultures in general, are monopolizing our nations agriculture system like never before
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and other pollutants along with the homogenization of the bees'diet as farmers increasingly use hives to pollinate monoculture (one crop) fields —
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and replacing them with big swaths of palm tree monocultures (plots where only one plant is grown
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what is known as a monoculture. This system requires the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers
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Monoculture (devoting large tracts of land to single crops) has affected the composition and fertility of the soil in most arable parts of the world.
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It seems to come up with depressing regularity to justify among other things pesticides industrial-scale monoculture
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and replacing them with big swathes of palm tree monocultures threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered
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but in the quest for ever greater short term crop yields the modern system of intensive monoculture (growing the same crop all the time) farming wins.
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Precisely because of their global significance and the consequences of their failure virtually all our agricultural research funding and promotion focuses exclusively on squeezing more out of these major crops grown as monocultures.
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farmers were able to grow the same amount of grain as in conventional rice monocultures
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About 10 percent of the entire island now consists of single-crop monocultures such as these plantations according to the study that documented the deforestation published in PLOS ONE.
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These companies created an agricultural business model based on monoculture whose singular focus resembles the fast food industry more than traditional farming.
Turning the commercial banana crop from a monoculture (in which every Cavendish plant is essentially a clone) to one with multiple resistant breeds would help insulate plantations against disease
As its monoculture spreads the threat to both livelihoods and lives grows. There is some good news for subsistence crops:
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On one side was the native prairie the other side had this towering monoculture of invasive Sorghum.
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Simple maximization of profit can lead landholders accessing carbon markets to create monoculture plantations which do not support biodiversity
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According to Larsen the increase in agricultural production over the past four to five decades has corresponded to massive changes in land use often resulting in large scale monocultures separated by small fragments of natural land.
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While continued planting of one species in monoculture pulls the soil in one direction rotating to a different one benefits soil health.
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The team looked at slug feeding damage to seedling monocultures of 23 meadow species. The severity
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which deliver maximum yield in monocultures. But there has been virtually no equivalent research conducted in mixed crops.'
friends or a foes a plant of the same species a family member or a genetically identical clone as in many monocultures in the West.
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and bioethanol (obtained from monoculture of palm oil sugar cane maize etc.)have presented problems that make them less attractive.
which avoids the ethical problem of monoculture to provide fuel rather than food. This study was led by scientists from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona's Institute of Environmental science
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and is listed as a noxious weed along the West Coast of the United states. It is aggressively invasive within its current range--near monocultures of this grass occupy thousands of hectares of mixed coniferous understory
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and resource managers should not rely on seemingly stable but vulnerable single-crop monocultures. Instead they should encourage more kinds of plants in fields and woods as a buffer against sudden ecosystem disturbance.
A monoculture stand of trees or crops might appear stable and productive for example --but it's an ecosystem that is more vulnerable to collapse he said adding that this study helps explain why species diversity matters.
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To prevent it from turning beloved nature preserves into shrub monocultures people must remove it from their yards
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Modern forestry is largely based on monocultures--in Sweden usually pine or spruce--mainly because it is considered more rational.
A new study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Future Forests shows that mixed forests in comparison with monocultures have positive effects on several different areas including production.
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Among the grasslands studied the team found monoculture grasses supported fewer birds and fewer bird species than grasslands with a mix of grass types and other kinds of vegetation like wildflowers...
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levels from monocultures to five species mixtures across Europe (Spain Italy Romania Poland Germany. For every region we compared monocultures to mixed forests (up to 5 tree species)
and looked at their respective capacity to resist to drought explains Damien Bonal who led the research at INRA.
This study shows that mixed species forests are more resistant to drought stress than monocultures in some regions only:
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Converting diverse forest ecosystems to these single-crop monocultures degrades or destroys wildlife habitat. Oil palm plantations also have been associated with dangerous and abusive conditions for laborers.
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and setting minimum requirements on number of crops grown to stop areas slipping into homogenous'monocultures'.
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It's yet another example of a monoculture taking over. Yannarell said that this research will be the foundation for a lot of work they'll do in the future.
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centralized, monoculture status quo where all the grain comes from the Midwest, and over half the hogs from just four states to a new topography of distributed, diversified food production, we have to start supporting local food now.
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but others criticized it for ushering in an age of monoculture in which farmers turned their backs on biodiversity in the interest of maximizing food production per acre.
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the threat of catastrophic disease outbreaks in monocultures, an insatiable demand for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticide-resistant bugs and herbicide-resistant superweeds,
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rather than the monoculture crops that the big corporations prefer. Designing genomes will be a personal thing a new art form,
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