Monoculture

The tradition of the American family farm is at risk as there are now less than a million people in the U.S. that claim that their main profession is farming. This represents a loss of nearly five million farms since 1935. Self-sustaining family farms are the base of our rural communities. Communities benefit from local farmers as they purchase their products from local merchants that provide jobs which improve the local economy. Shopping at a farmers market is not only eco-conscious but a…

Historians have established that the ‘Swing Riots’ comprised 1500 disturbances between 1 June 1830 and 3 September 1831, and were characterised by incendiarism and the smashing of threshing machines by agricultural labourers. Macdonald asserted that the threshing machine was a scapegoat for rural resentment of their economic position. The potential threat to their livelihoods was characterised by the threshing machine, a semiotic representation of the declining fortunes of the labour force.…

main components of this approach include providing a great amount of water and nutrients to the crops, introducing pesticides and herbicides and inorganic fertilizer. Also, there has been a major replacement of natural grassland with monoculture crops. To have monoculture crops means to basically have one type of crop in a field. Finally, the Green Revolution also consists of multiple cropping on a piece of land in attempt to increase harvest per year. More recently, dwarf plants have been…

nature’s logic and the capitalism’s logic do not match. As Anderson (2013) suggests, “economics plays against ecology” because the ecology maximize the diversity while the economics maximize the yield (p. 91). The Big Organic takes advantage of monoculture and economies of scale. To some extent, Big Organic is a masquerade of organic food and it is unsustainable.…

promise for humanity. Environmental issues, such as degradation and exploitation, are seen as an interest to feminist because there understanding relate to the oppression of women. For instance, in India the deforestation and reforestation of a monoculture species tree results in a loss of livelihood factors such as food, fuel, fodder, and income generating uses for women (Warren, 2012/ ). She connects the two with the example of the conceptual framework that humans are morally justified in…

In Vandana Shiva’s essay, “Economic Globalization Has Become a war Against Nature and the Poor,” Shiva discusses the strains that poor agricultural societies are forced to bear due to the new global economy. She examines the environmental and socioeconomic effects that third world nations must face if they are pressured to join the rest of the world through globalization. She argues that the sustainability of the world depends on the sharing of resources, diversity of crops, as well as respect…

all who face social strain commit criminal or deviant acts. There is no reference to crime patterns identified in social groups, based on gender or locality etc (Browne et al., 2009). Cohens view on Merton’s strain theory challenged his focus on monoculture arguing if a single dominant culture is present then there must be other cultures by default (subcultures), suggesting the idea of status frustration rather than Durkheim and Merton’s anomie. Delinquent gangs operating within their own…

health of people or detrimental to the environment, GMOs in some way can cause problems among society. When genetically modifying organisms it is mostly about increase the percentage of individuals with desired traits. This relates to the idea of monoculture, where one specific plant is grown in a specific area because society depends on it. GMOs revolves around the idea of producing crops that have all the same desired and beneficial traits. As history shows lack of genetic diversity can…

body was from Chicago (par. 5). Even though there is a strong correlation between race and cultural diversity, the cultural values that the schools wish to teach are not being properly addressed since multiracial students oftentimes come from a monoculture…

States that were improved by imperialism and helped imperialism flourish. Due to spread of imperialism, the economy of the U.S. improved. Businesses grew due to the grow in trade with other countries, including Cuba and China. Cuba had been a “monoculture”: an economy based on sugar production in a world market dominated by U.S. imperialism (Lotta). With control over the Cuban sugar industry, the U.S. was able to benefit from trade by placing low tariffs which boosted the fortunes of both…