monoculture

Preposition: of

• crop: This means good agriculture land becomes diverted from food crops to large-scale monocultures of cash crops.

Converse of object

• create: For example half of Scotland's remaining native forests have been replaced with commercial forests, creating a monoculture.
• form: This is the community associated with high production agricultural grassland and usually forms a short-term monoculture and is of little benefit to wildlife.
• encourage: A more general concern raised about GM crops is that their wide use will encourage monocultures.

Adjective modifier

• large-scale: This means good agriculture land becomes diverted from food crops to large-scale monocultures of cash crops.
• intensive: Most salads today are the product of intensive monoculture with extended cropping seasons.
• industrial: The EU tariff reforms might perpetuate trade injustice and industrial monocultures that harm workers and the environment.
• vast: In 1970, for example, a blight spread quickly through America's vast maize monocultures, destroying more than 10 million acres of corn.
• global: Nor am I advocating global monoculture or an increase in consumption.
• single: It plants single variety monocultures as a continuum over very extensive areas.

Modifies a noun

• plantation: Huge monoculture palm oil plantations soon take the place of complex ecosystems that have existed for thousands of years.
• farming: Intensive monoculture farming of tea gave the soil no time to recover.
• crop: But once rice became a monoculture cash crop, it crowded the green vegetables out of people's fields and out of their diet.
• tree: Monoculture tree plantations are anathema to the biodiverse native forest ecosystems of the world.
• plot: The mixed rice fields were compared with control monoculture plots.

Noun used with modifier

• consumer: The development of the consumer monoculture Historically, the erosion of cultural integrity was a conscious goal of colonial developers.
• cotton: The cotton monoculture is more destructive to Central Asia's future than the tons of heroin that regularly transit the region.
• crop: Experience elsewhere in South America has shown that current pasturage and crop monocultures are unsustainable in this environment.
• soya: Traditional food crops have been displaced by RR soya monoculture, leaving food insecurity in its wake.
• species: At the highest level, species monoculture is difficult to change, at least in the short term.