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• n  the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)

• Jerusalem was a monoculture, comparable to Washington or Redmond, Wash.
• No longer forced to fit into a regimented Maoist monoculture, their range of possibilities has diversified along with the country's exploding economy.
• Increasingly, even certified-organic produce is grown on vast monoculture spreads, many of them overseas, and shipped long distances.

News & Articles

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• Honeybees and Monoculture: Nothing to Dance About
  Honeybees and Monoculture: Nothing to Dance About
  June 7, 2013 - Scientific American via Yahoo! News
• Honey bees’ greatest threat?
  Modern agricultural practices -- monoculture, specifically -- have led to a 30 percent decline in colonies yearly
  June 7, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Laurie Ferguson in The Age
  People fear there is a monoculture in some suburbs. They believe there is an over-dominance of some cultures in schools, which is denigrating the quality of education,Mr Ferguson told The Age. "So they are withdrawing their kids from...
• Paul Saffo in Middle East North Africa Financial Network
  Those Pacific islands with monoculture crop production will need to assess their food security potential closely, as diversified agricultural systems will fare better under all climate change scenarios. Integrated systems of crops, trees and... Karl Alexander Müller http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Alexander_M%C3%BCller&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHj6-za-My5A8ZZvnOTCCdby24TfA NEXT http://www.google.com/url?q=http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5487286-147/story.csp&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7VB_khZCgHYnJdn-PHLkZnvTv3g Nov 26, 2009 64921 86233 monoculture Any monoculture is a bad idea," Saffo said. "If we had a mixed environment ...... that's a good thing."