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Monoculture

Also Known As Monocropping
Agricultural Production Systems and Economics

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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Agricultural Biodiversity, Concepts

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, Concepts

Sustainable agriculture literature standardly argues against large-scale monoculture's soil, water and biodiversity costs.

Source Sustainable Agriculture (Wikipedia)

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Desertification, Concepts

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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Entity-backed identity for the concept class this concept already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Monoculture (Wikipedia)
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    Growing a single crop, often a single variety, across a large area year after year.
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Sustainable Agriculture (Wikipedia)
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