Monocropping (or monoculture) is the planting of a single crop in the same patch of land year after year. For example, in 2020, two crops—corn (maize) and soybean—accounted for 70% of the planted ...

In Simbroh village of Punjab’s Patiala district, 70-year-old Gurjant Singh looked out over his five-acre farm with a mix of pride and resignation. When he began farming in 1978, he cultivated a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2020) Brazil is home to more than 300 native bee species — many of them stingless — that help pollinate the nation’s valuable agricultural crops and provide other important ...

A Diverfarming project study compares the environmental footprint and the economic performance of traditional mandarin monocropping as opposed to growing mandarin intercropped with herbaceous crops ...

A group of Catholic missionaries and peasant organizations in the Philippines have called for a stop to the expansion of monocropping industries in the country. "[Monocrop industries] threaten not ...

There are two sides — active, vocal sides — to just about every food-supply issue on the planet. Are genetically modified organisms, organics, pesticides or conventional livestock good or bad? Depends ...

Monocropping — the practice of only growing one crop, whether it’s corn or soybeans or potatoes season after season — is ruining American farmland, depleting essential nutrients from the soil and ...

African-based environmental groups have called on rich and influential donors to give “more investment and support” to smallholder farmers to boost agroecological farm practices in Africa. The ...