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Monoculture Farming: Global Practices, Ecological Impact & Benefits/Drawbacks
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Description for Monoculture Farming: Global Practices, Ecological Impact & Benefits/Drawbacks
Hardback. Editor(s): Nath, Tapan Kumar; O'Reilly, Patrick. Num Pages: 202 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 281 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Monoculture farming is nowadays a widespread practice throughout the world. In order to meet the food demand of rapidly increasing populations, the diverse agroecosystems have been converted mostly into single cropping sectors. Even though food productivity with high input has been boosted to some extent, it is at the cost of local biodiversity loss. This book, drawing examples from several tropical and sub-tropical countries, documents some of the most prevailing monoculture practices and their socio-economic and environmental influences. It describes widespread commercial monoculture of rubber and oil palm, as well as the invasion of exotic mono-plantations in the forestry ... Read more
Monoculture farming is nowadays a widespread practice throughout the world. In order to meet the food demand of rapidly increasing populations, the diverse agroecosystems have been converted mostly into single cropping sectors. Even though food productivity with high input has been boosted to some extent, it is at the cost of local biodiversity loss. This book, drawing examples from several tropical and sub-tropical countries, documents some of the most prevailing monoculture practices and their socio-economic and environmental influences. It describes widespread commercial monoculture of rubber and oil palm, as well as the invasion of exotic mono-plantations in the forestry ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634851664
SKU
V9781634851664
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