On the relation between monocultures and ecosystem services in the Global South: A review

Suárez, Andrés; Gwozdz, Wencke

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109870

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“…Tilzey, 2024) find themselves marginalized, overshadowed by the preeminence of corporate growers, with a surge in land grabbing and rural proletarianization exacerbating their plight (Tilzey and Sudgen, 2024). In the midst of these dynamics, plantations become arenas of conflicted experiences, where individuals navigate through a process of apprehension, particularly in the Global South (Suarez and Gwozdz, 2023). Meanwhile, in the Global North, a personal quest for healthy and trendy diets further complicates the intricate tapestry of global agricultural dynamics.…”

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Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach

Suarez,

Ume

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social and environmental ramifications. This paper aims to outline the solutions needed to revamp these challenges, by paying special attention to the state-capital nexus in the context of the FS’global core-periphery dialectics. Thereby, we embrace radical political agroecology as being essential in promoting sustainability within the FS, especially in the Global South. Agroecology is proposed as the strategy to address the food system’s complexity in terms of the social, environmental, and economic embeddedness. We conclude with potential solutions that contribute to the pathway for FS sustainability.

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Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach

Suarez,

Ume

2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…According to the survey carried out by Reza & Sabau (2022), it has been shown that monocropping has a negative impact on soil depletion and contributed to a decrease in soil nutrient diversity. Although this cropping system is commercially efficient and profitable, it provides an unbuffered niche for parasitic species, increasing the crop's vulnerability to opportunistic insects, plants, and microorganisms (Blary et al, 2021;Dolezal et al, 2019;Suarez et al, 2023). Because a single crop is more vulnerable to a particular pathogen or pest, it accelerates the spread of diseases and pest outbreaks (Biber-Freudenberger et al, 2016;Cui et al, 2023;Kaur et al, 2021), increasing farmers' intensive reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, which affects water quality, human health, and wildlife population (Rahman, 2023).…”

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Agroecological concepts and alternatives to the problems of contemporary agriculture: Monoculture and chemical fertilization in the context of climate change

Elouattassi,

Ferioun,

El Ghachtouli

et al. 2023

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The modernization of agriculture has transformed natural agrarian systems into other new conventional ones, making it possible to exponentially increase agricultural production. This leads to the destruction of ecological functions, and services, and has negative impacts on human health. This critical situation has given rise to a new model of agriculture called agroecology, which has emerged as a systemic approach that can understand the practices of traditional agricultural systems, as a scientific discipline that defines, classifies, and studies agrosystems from an ecological and socio-economic point of view. This paper explores the major problems of agriculture, including climate change, monoculture, and chemical fertilization at the local, regional and global scale. Equally, we defined the different concepts that bring together the agroecological approach. We based on agroecology as a scientific discipline, as a practice by defining the different agroecological practices and their scale of application, as well as the politico-economic aspect of this concept. Further, we have proposed the agroecological alternatives that can remedy the three problems recorded in the first section, based on several recent studies and research that can examine whether agroecological practices have positive results on monoculture, chemical fertilization, and climate changes. However, more advanced studies, using rigorous research design, such as case controls, longitudinal studies, and surveys in regions where agriculture is their main source of income, such as Morocco, are still needed. These investigations are suggested to fill the gap of data on such areas and fields of research.

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