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  • We can plant edible "food forests" across the cities, suburbs, and former monocropped fields.

    Anthony Anderson: Replanting Paradise is the Answer Anthony Anderson 2011

  • Norman Borlaug -- best known for winning the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his role in the Green Revolution (the transformation of agriculture to an industrial, monocropped system, which increased the amount of food being produced in Mexico, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and elsewhere) -- died this past weekend at age 95.

    Paula Crossfield: Evaluating the Legacy of the Father of the Green Revolution 2009

  • This leaves less land for use for those run-out-of-business farmers and their families to produce the food to feed the local population, who, along with the displaced farmers, are forced to go to work - for next to nothing - on those monocropped plantations to grow food that will be shipped out of the country or to work in American sub-contracted sweat shop factories.

    Manufacturing Poor People 2009

  • We coax an astonishing amount of corn from each monocropped acre by saturating this precious topsoil with fertilizers and herbicides, and then we convert this nutritionally bankrupt bounty into high fructose corn syrup, or feed for cows whose digestive systems literally can't stomach it (hello, E. coli), or the eco-disaster we call corn-based ethanol.

    Kerry Trueman: Workin' On The Food Chain Gang 2008

  • A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people.

    Archive 2008-01-13 papabear 2008

  • It is recognized that with an expanding medicinal-plant cultivation program high density plantings, especially if monocropped, are likely to require pesticides to control insect pests, pathogens and weeds.

    3. India 1997

  • They harvest 4 T/Ha. of monocropped corn planted year after year on the same land under typical jungle conditions, using chemical fertilizer plus velvet bean.

    6: Soil health and plant nutrition 1996

  • Basic irrigated crops expected to be grown in the area when the project comes into service are paddy and maize in the monsoon season, paddy being either monocropped or double-cropped, wheat and oil-seeds in the dry season, and sugarcane as an annual crop.

    Chapter 11 1995

  • Encouragement of the expansion of monocropped cereals into marginal areas has also incurred high environmental costs.

    ANC Agricultural Policy 1994

  • After continuous cropping for 4 yr, the inclusion of a legume in the crop rotation, in particular as a second season cover crop, showed an important residual effect on N supply to monocropped maize.

    1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics. 1992

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