Growing a single crop, often a single variety, across a large area year after year. Monoculture is what makes mechanized farming efficient and what makes it fragile: one pathogen suited to the crop meets an unbroken feast. The Irish potato famine and the recurring rusts of wheat are its textbook disasters, and managing its risks is much of what rotation, breeding and crop protection exist to do. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Growing one crop or variety across a large area is widely documented as reducing agricultural biodiversity and the resilience that comes with it.
Source Monoculture (Wikipedia)
Sustainable agriculture literature standardly argues against large-scale monoculture's soil, water and biodiversity costs.
Source Sustainable Agriculture (Wikipedia)
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Intensive farming and monoculture are named among the article's own agricultural drivers of soil nutrient depletion
Source Desertification (Wikipedia)
Causes
Proximately caused by Phytophthora infestans; dependence on a near-monoculture of a few potato varieties is what made the blight a famine
Source Great Famine, Ireland (Wikipedia)
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Growing a single crop, often a single variety, across a large area year after year.
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