The Importance of Biodiversity in Agriculture

The rise of mono culture means large expanses of land in which a single crop is grown, connected to futures markets and then networks of logistics. The rise of that kind of farming technology is attended also with the rise of certain kinds of industrial chemical agriculture. You're losing a great deal of knowledge, not just the indigenous knowledge that was bound to the land. But then also, you know, just knowledge t that happens, that's cultivated by diversity.