Inadequate farm crop diversity

Name(s): 
Monoculture of crops
Single crop farming
Insufficient polyculture
Nature 
Monocultures are highly unstable and unsustainable systems that spread not because they produce more food but because they produce more control.
Claim 
The mindset that assumes that monocultures are essential for solving problems of scarcity underlies programmes such as World Bank-financed schemes that replace diverse natural forests with pine or eucalyptus plantations, and turn diversified farms into monocultures of "miracle" wheat or rice.
Counter-claim 
Mechanized agriculture has made broadscale farming of single crops very efficient. The advantages for disease and pest management afforded by small-scale intermixed crops have been offset by chemical pesticides.
Broader 
Intensive farming
Crop vulnerability
Insufficient diversification
Loss of biodiversity in rural areas
Dependence of countries on export of limited range of raw materials
Narrower 
Inadequate crop rotation
Overdependence on few crop species
Related 
Technological monoculture
Stagnated development of agricultural production
Non-diversification in subsistence fishing economies
Aggravates 
Soil degradation [in 1 loop]
Destruction of the countryside
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Vulnerability of world genetic resources
Threatened agricultural wildlife habitats
Shortfalls in agricultural crop production [in 2 loops]
Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops
Subsistence agricultural income level in rural communities
Aggravated by 
Insufficient farm experiments
Inappropriate cash crop policy
Inappropriate modernization of agriculture
Strategy(ies) 
Increasing crop diversity
Enriching cultivated plant's genetic diversity with wild relatives
Exploiting global biological resources for new foods
Expanding research on plant genetic resources
Value(s) 
Diversity
Inadequacy
Insufficiency
Reference(s) 
Shiva, Vandana: Monocultures of the Mind
Type 
(D) Detailed problems