| Brazilian agriculture has been going through a rapid process of modernization in recent years, with the expansion of intensive monoculture. |
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| Today's trends in agriculture continue to be driven by monoculture and profit driven cropping. |
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| Populations fluctuated with the extent of monoculture, choice of cultivars, and extent of parasites. |
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| They rotate their crops, thereby helping the soil to recover from centuries of monoculture under sugarcane. |
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| The surroundings are of heather, not some extreme monoculture, but a pattern with grasses and bilberry. |
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| Soil degradation due to sugar-cane monoculture and pesticides are the most serious problems. |
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| When the native species is suppressed, the area becomes a monoculture of purple loosestrife. |
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| Detailed records demonstrate the extent of buffel invasion producing a ground cover monoculture in richer soil areas. |
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| This huge monoculture is covering most of the middle West and a lot of the rest of the country like a second great American lawn. |
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| He was genetically creating fast-growing poplar trees for a monoculture plantation. |
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| This was reported in pure monoculture plantations of alder in Himalaya and in lodgepole pine in North America. |
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| Banana plants are interspersed among the manioc, avoiding the monoculture typical of industrialized agriculture. |
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| Heirloom plants can also help buck the trend of monoculture, in which one variety is grown in vast fields. |
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| Corn was planted at 53,000 plants per ha in both monoculture and polyculture. |
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| The fields flourished but with such vast areas of monoculture, farmers had to use massive amounts of chemical pesticides. |
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| These species are under an unusual selection regime in that their hosts are often isogenic and planted in monoculture. |
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| A place where limited editions, white labels, one-offs and addresses on the backs of hands congregate to explode the myth of monoculture. |
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| We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture. |
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| But he was unhappy about planting only Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine on a site, replacing the natural mixed species with a monoculture. |
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| Research has revealed that oil palm grown as a monoculture upsets the flora and fauna ecosystem due to an absence of plant diversity. |
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| Comparisons between individual P. lanceolata or B. napus plants in monoculture and interspecific competition were made. |
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| Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings. |
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| Asparagus Fern can smother groundcovers, small shrubs and seedlings, forming a weed monoculture. |
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| The flowers are loved by bees in the same way as lavender Biodiversity is important partly because a monoculture can harbour pests and disease. |
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| Except for some notable exceptions, monoculture is now regarded as a dead end in the context of reducing the use of agrichemicals. |
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| Well, when you reforest using just one type of tree, the other vegetation is prevented from growing back and you get a monoculture. |
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| The farmer then remains more independent than the day laborer in the monoculture system and is less likely to be exploited. |
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| Not only do monoculture fetishists romanticize a bygone era of centralized media that nobody really misses three TV networks! |
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| If you can sit back, enjoy the scenery, the touching humour, the deft performances and the clever send-ups of American monoculture, this is one brilliant, meandering ride. |
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| One daren't imagine the quality of a pharmacopoeia that would be reduced to sterile monoculture fields and intensive breeding of a few species. |
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| This strategy of specialization and monoculture did not work in areas with limited natural resources and financial capital. |
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| After a while, heather monoculture is broken by an intake field and our path leads to a shallow valley that is a mosaic of ground-cover greens and is curlew country. |
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| CleanStar has steered clear of monoculture crops in favour of sustainable farming methods. |
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| The secret, it seems, is to keep animals and crops on the move: monoculture doesn't suit the land in the long term. |
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| It cannot be envisaged in terms of a monoculture, only as unity in diversity. |
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| This monoculture is threatening smallholders' livelihoods and food security. |
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| Both component crops yield less than if grown in a monoculture, but together they produce more grain and more revenue than either would alone. |
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| This was the system which forced Ireland and its peasantry into monoculture, since only the potato could be grown in sufficient quantity. |
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| An advantage of monoculture is that it is easier to give certain supplementary foods to the fish as there is only one fish species to consider with regard to food preference. |
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| The Interchurch Commission on Justice and Peace works especially in the department of Chocó, in the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó areas, in an area of major palm oil monoculture. |
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| Feeding the hungry of the world is a noble intention, but we should not really expect transnational corporations to do this, particularly by means of their transgenic, patented, input-dependent monoculture seeds. |
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| Agriculturalists are concerned about too much monoculture, as it makes the economy at risk from insect or crop diseases affecting a major crop. |
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| If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. |
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| Nassau was the first to replace sugar production monoculture with an economic polyculture. |
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| Sheep, however, graze well in monoculture pastures where most goats fare poorly. |
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| Forest experts have claimed that massive afforestation in the degraded areas comprises monoculture plantations. |
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| Since beans are considered a monoculture for the region and occupies 56 percent of land under cultivation, land is degenerating. |
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| Not according to ISIS, of course, who also think the way forward is the creation of a global religious monoculture. |
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| To test this hypothesis, NMR was used to compare the metabolic profiles of three cultures, an anaerobic fungal monoculture Piromyces sp. |
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| The sorghum culture showed the highest DM yield at 90 days, both in the monoculture crop and intercropping with midget-guandu and pearl millet. |
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| Tea Party conservatives funded by the Koch brothers and other fossil-fuel donors are trying to wipe out whatever is left of the Republican Party's polyculture and turn it into a monoculture. |
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| The promotion of intensive, monoculture production puts this basis at risk through soil erosion, de-fertilisation, the exhaustion and pollution of underground water, and emission of GHGs causing climate change. |
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| In many areas of the country, crop yields are actually declining instead of increasing, due to soil erosion, the practice of monoculture, limited access to fertiliser, etc. |
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| However, the developing countries' economies are dependent on the sale of these raw materials, often on a single crop, or monoculture, such as coffee, cocoa or tea. |
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| Now we see being done through this momentum, this triumphalism, this sort of political monoculture, what at one point could only have been done by force. |
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| As a great, multicultural world city, London need not defend English monoculture or spurn the diversity and tolerance that are a key to municipal success. |
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| During the Dust Bowl years of the '30s, Jackson reminded, the monoculture crops died but the polyculture prairie, with its diverse ecosystem, survived. |
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| Rainfed agriculture is also dominant here, but there is less rainfall than in Dosso, and there is heavy land pressure and soil erosion due to decades of monoculture. |
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| Tropical rainforests, in particular, house an immense diversity of species, more capable of adapting to, and therefore surviving, changing environmental conditions than monoculture forests. |
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| Environmental pressures and unchanging water levels have led to the development of a cattail monoculture that provides a poorer quality habitat than that found in areas with more diverse plants species. |
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| However, in many cases monoculture plantations of conifers have replaced the original mixed natural forest, because these grow quicker. |
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| The announced changes to higher education in the UK derive from a radical, neo-liberal approach that now seeks to transform the multiversity into a market-based monoculture. |
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| Monoculture plantations and silvicultural thinning create stands with fewer tree species than in natural forests. |
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