Monoculture
noun
The practice of growing or producing a single type of crop, plant, or product in a field or system.
Farmers used monoculture to plant a large field with only corn.
Often appears as...
- corn monoculture
- monoculture agriculture
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Technical
noun
A system where only one type of culture, society, or ideology is dominant, leaving no room for diversity.
The board of directors was criticised for being a monoculture, with no racial or gender diversity at all.
Often appears as...
- corporate monoculture
- ideological monoculture
noun
The practice of growing or producing a single type of crop, plant, or product in a field or system.
Farmers used monoculture to plant a large field with only corn.
Often appears as...
- corn monoculture
- monoculture agriculture
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A system where only one type of culture, society, or ideology is dominant, leaving no room for diversity.
The board of directors was criticised for being a monoculture, with no racial or gender diversity at all.
Often appears as...
- corporate monoculture
- ideological monoculture
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Focus
Monoculture in agriculture typically prioritizes efficiency but can impact biodiversity negatively.
The valley's monoculture of grapes affects local insect populations.
Pro Tip 2/3Vulnerability Risks
A monoculture crop is susceptible to disease, as there is no genetic variation to prevent spread.
The potato blight devastated the monoculture potato fields in Ireland.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Dependence
Regions that rely on monoculture may face economic risks if the single crop fails.
The town's economy, reliant on strawberry monoculture, suffered when prices fell.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Focus
Monoculture in agriculture typically prioritizes efficiency but can impact biodiversity negatively.
The valley's monoculture of grapes affects local insect populations.
Pro Tip 2/3Vulnerability Risks
A monoculture crop is susceptible to disease, as there is no genetic variation to prevent spread.
The potato blight devastated the monoculture potato fields in Ireland.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Dependence
Regions that rely on monoculture may face economic risks if the single crop fails.
The town's economy, reliant on strawberry monoculture, suffered when prices fell.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Focus
Monoculture in agriculture typically prioritizes efficiency but can impact biodiversity negatively.
The valley's monoculture of grapes affects local insect populations.
Pro Tip 2/3Vulnerability Risks
A monoculture crop is susceptible to disease, as there is no genetic variation to prevent spread.
The potato blight devastated the monoculture potato fields in Ireland.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Dependence
Regions that rely on monoculture may face economic risks if the single crop fails.
The town's economy, reliant on strawberry monoculture, suffered when prices fell.
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We Are What We Eat:...
and it will help, you know, the soil to be So it's permaculture but to, you know, very old ways of permaculture. They harvest parsley, which is a very ancient plant from that part of the world too. They practice polyculture there's not going to be massive monoculture it's always mixed around there.
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Do we really need...
They've become an essential part of our food system. As populations have grown, monoculture, single crop farming, has helped us feed people efficiently. But it's also left our food vulnerable to extensive attack by pests. In turn, we've become more dependent on pesticides.
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The global movement to...
Notice how there were no sounds of birds or insects. The songs of biodiversity are gone. That's because what you're hearing is not an ecosystem. It's a monoculture of one single tree species planted for rapid tree growth. Along with the biodiversity that used to live here,
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The history of the world...
The use of high fructose corn syrup may be a contributor to diabetes and obesity. And the rise of monoculture farming has left our food supply dangerously vulnerable to pests and pathogens— a single virus could infect the world’s supply of this ubiquitous crop.
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The danger of science...
We object to genetically engineered food. Why do we do that? Well, the things I constantly hear Too many chemicals, pesticides, hormones, monoculture, we don't want giant fields of the same thing, that's wrong. We don't companies patenting life.
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How to Create Your Own...
people how to do a planting how to properly secure the roots so that it's touching soil we can't mow everything into oblivion we can't herbicide everything into a monoculture we really have to maintain the diversity out there because that
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Marla Spivak: Why bees...
hives of bees into the almond orchards, for pollination, and also because the pollen in an almond blossom is really high in protein. It's really good for bees. Now, the scale of almond monoculture demands that most of our nation's bees,
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The danger of science...
constantly hear are too many chemicals pesticides hormones monoculture we don't want giant fields of the same thing that's wrong we don't want companies patenting life we don't want companies owning seeds and you know what my
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The paradox of...
we're processing that information. We're making that our own, and we are learning much more actively than when we were just transcribing what was being said. Fifth, get security through diversity. Monoculture can be deadly.
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
but quite seriously, it was a statement to me that one thing that you do, sort of, see is the aggressive nature of the industrial world has produced -- kind of, large masses of things, and when you -- in monoculture,
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We Are What We Eat:...
and it will help, you know, the soil to be So it's permaculture but to, you know, very old ways of permaculture. They harvest parsley, which is a very ancient plant from that part of the world too. They practice polyculture there's not going to be massive monoculture it's always mixed around there.
Video examples
Do we really need...
They've become an essential part of our food system. As populations have grown, monoculture, single crop farming, has helped us feed people efficiently. But it's also left our food vulnerable to extensive attack by pests. In turn, we've become more dependent on pesticides.
Video examples
The global movement to...
Notice how there were no sounds of birds or insects. The songs of biodiversity are gone. That's because what you're hearing is not an ecosystem. It's a monoculture of one single tree species planted for rapid tree growth. Along with the biodiversity that used to live here,
Video examples
The history of the world...
The use of high fructose corn syrup may be a contributor to diabetes and obesity. And the rise of monoculture farming has left our food supply dangerously vulnerable to pests and pathogens— a single virus could infect the world’s supply of this ubiquitous crop.
Video examples
The danger of science...
We object to genetically engineered food. Why do we do that? Well, the things I constantly hear Too many chemicals, pesticides, hormones, monoculture, we don't want giant fields of the same thing, that's wrong. We don't companies patenting life.
Video examples
How to Create Your Own...
people how to do a planting how to properly secure the roots so that it's touching soil we can't mow everything into oblivion we can't herbicide everything into a monoculture we really have to maintain the diversity out there because that
Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
hives of bees into the almond orchards, for pollination, and also because the pollen in an almond blossom is really high in protein. It's really good for bees. Now, the scale of almond monoculture demands that most of our nation's bees,
Video examples
The danger of science...
constantly hear are too many chemicals pesticides hormones monoculture we don't want giant fields of the same thing that's wrong we don't want companies patenting life we don't want companies owning seeds and you know what my
Video examples
The paradox of...
we're processing that information. We're making that our own, and we are learning much more actively than when we were just transcribing what was being said. Fifth, get security through diversity. Monoculture can be deadly.
Video examples
Rob Forbes: Ways of...
but quite seriously, it was a statement to me that one thing that you do, sort of, see is the aggressive nature of the industrial world has produced -- kind of, large masses of things, and when you -- in monoculture,
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.
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Taj Mahal
American Musician
It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Tristram Stuart
English Author
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
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Tad Williams
American Writer
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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George M. Church
American Scientist
The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. Therefore, the recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
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Robert Christgau
American Journalist
When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian Writer
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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David Starkey
English Historian
Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.
Quote examples
Taj Mahal
American Musician
It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
Quote examples
Tristram Stuart
English Author
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Quote examples
Tad Williams
American Writer
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
Quote examples
George M. Church
American Scientist
The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. Therefore, the recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
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Robert Christgau
American Journalist
When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian Writer
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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David Starkey
English Historian
Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.
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