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- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Fresno_City_College/Introduction_to_Conservation_Biology/11%3A_Pollution_Overharvesting_Invasive_Species_and_Disease/11.03%3A_Impacts_of_Industrial_AgricultureIndustrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered trem...Industrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency, it has also caused serious ecological damage.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Bakersfield_College/Introduction_to_Environmental_Science_3e/12%3A_Conventional_and_Sustainable_Agriculture/12.03%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Prince_Georges_Community_College/BIO-1110_(Environmental_Biology)_OER_Textbook/03%3A_Human_Impacts/4.02%3A_Chapter_14_-_Food_Production_and_Sustainable_Agriculture/14.05%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Hartnell_College/Environmental_Biology_(Fisher_and_Dorsner_Custom)/09%3A_Conventional_and_Sustainable_Agriculture/9.03%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Monterey_Peninsula_College/BIOL_31%3A_Environmental_Science_(Raskoff)/07%3A_Food_and_Agriculture/7.04%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Pittsburgh/Environmental_Science_(Whittinghill)/13%3A_Agriculture/13.02%3A_Industrial_AgricultureIndustrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered trem...Industrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency, it has also caused serious ecological damage.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Bakersfield_College/Introduction_to_Environmental_Science/12%3A_Conventional_and_Sustainable_Agriculture/12.03%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Sandboxes/tholmberg_at_nwcc.edu/Introduction_to_Environmental_Science/9%3A_Conventional_and_Sustainable_Agriculture/9.01%3A_Conventional_AgricultureThe prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food producti...The prevailing agricultural system, variously called “conventional farming,” “modern agriculture,” or “industrial farming,” has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency. Food production worldwide has risen in the past 50 years; the World Bank estimates that between 70 percent and 90 percent of the recent increases in food production are the result of conventional agriculture rather than greater acreage under cultivation.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ecology/Environmental_Science_(Ha_and_Schleiger)/04%3A_Humans_and_the_Environment/4.03%3A_Agriculture/4.3.02%3A_Industrial_AgricultureIndustrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered trem...Industrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency, it has also caused serious ecological damage.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis/PLS_002%3A_Botany_and_physiology_of_cultivated_plants/19%3A_Biotic_interactions/19.01%3A_Industrial_AgricultureIndustrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered trem...Industrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency, it has also caused serious ecological damage.
- https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Coastline_College/ENVS_C100%3A_Environmental_Science_(Hoerer)/05%3A_Humans_and_the_Environment/5.03%3A_Agriculture/5.3.02%3A_Industrial_AgricultureIndustrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered trem...Industrial agriculture employs heavy machinery, synthetic pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers. It relies on monocultures of high yield crop varieties. While industrial agriculture has delivered tremendous gains in productivity and efficiency, it has also caused serious ecological damage.
