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In many ways, monocultures are the product of an agriculture divorced completely from nature. Lacking biodiversity, they require numerous manufactured inputs. But how well does that system work? What are the repercussions of trying to grow food in a system so at odds with natural processes?
Sources:
Miguel A. Altieri & Clara I. Nicholls (2020) Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture,The Journal of Peasant Studies, 47:5, 881-898, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1782891
In many ways, monocultures are the product of an agriculture divorced completely from nature. Lacking biodiversity, they require numerous manufactured inputs. But how well does that system work? What are the repercussions of trying to grow food in a system so at odds with natural processes?
Sources:
Miguel A. Altieri & Clara I. Nicholls (2020) Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture,The Journal of Peasant Studies, 47:5, 881-898, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1782891
