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Monoculture

Monoculture agriculture consists of cultivating only a single type of crop on a specific field/piece of land. Often the preferred method of cultivation in intensive agriculture. Contrast with polyculture which involves cultivating two or more crops on the same piece of land.

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Plantation photo. Credit: Min An via Pexels.
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Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography
Author David Gilbert describes the story of Indonesian farming workers occupying the agribusiness plantation near their home, and how this movement led to its reclaiming of their land, and subsequent flourishing of diversified farming. It shows how emancipatory and ecologically attuned ways of living with land are possible.
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