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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corn ethanol entrenches polluting factory farms and worsens our food system. We've got to end government support for this fuel. Corn ethanol entrenches polluting factory farms and worsens our food ...

One of HC&S’s biggest struggles however is how to remediate the soil for growth after years of sugarcane monocropping left the soil severely depleted. After determining the most effective soil ...

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 ...