Monocultures Sentence Examples

The response of governments has been to further industrialize agriculture, encouraging monocultures and the high use of chemical inputs at increasing costs.

This means good agriculture land becomes diverted from food crops to large-scale monocultures of cash crops.

A more general concern raised about GM crops is that their wide use will encourage monocultures.

The EU tariff reforms might perpetuate trade injustice and industrial monocultures that harm workers and the environment.

In 1970, for example, a blight spread quickly through America's vast maize monocultures, destroying more than 10 million acres of corn.

Experience elsewhere in South America has shown that current pasturage and crop monocultures are unsustainable in this environment.