One crop economy?

Question

What is a one crop economy?

I am defining it for Global History and Geography

Answer 1

Probably Corn or Rice

Answer 2

One Crop Economy

Answer 3

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One crop economy?
What is a one crop economy?

I am defining it for Global History and Geography

Answer 4

A one-crop economy is when a country or a region relies solely on one crop for its livelihood. It doesn't mean that they couldn't grow other things; it means that they have chosen to cultivate one thing (usually a type of cash crop) that they can sell to other places. While many places have historically cultivated one main crop for food (potatoes in Ireland in the early 19th century, for example), subsistance farming does not usually constitute a one crop economy.

Good examples of a one crop economy might be tobacco in early colonial Virginia, sugarcane in the Caribbean, or opium poppies in today's Afghanishtan.

Answer 5

If the economy for a region is based on one particular source. Example - Pittsburgh, PA was largely a steel town, the bottom fell out the US steel industry in 1970s creating huge unemployment and other economic issues in the area.

Same happened in the Seattle area with Boeing, Detroit and the auto industry.

What happens to the middle east when the oil drys up?

The term crop is symbolic.

Answer 6

Cotton in the pre-civil war south. Everyone grew cotton, and if the crop failed, or the price dropped, catastrophe! Every thing depended on a good crop, and a good price for it, leaving the whole south economically exposed.

Answer 7

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No,it is not. But the economy depends heavily on agriculture.The main export products are tea, coffee, petroleum product and fish. The share of population in the agricultural sector is high about 75% which has generated GDP only 19.7%.

Answer 8

Monoculture tends to be a trait of colonial economies. Societies under monoculture cannot be self-reliant and dedicate their economic activity to supplying the markets of the core. Look at Core-Periphery Theory, the effects of Sugar Cane cultivation on the history of the Caribbean and the influence of US companies on Central and South America in the XX c. via United Fruit co. (Chiquita), Standard Oil (Chevron) and Anaconda (in Chile). I would suggest you look into the implications of monoculture as a way to describe the dependence of oil producing countries on, well, oil.
But my main answer would center on colonialism, neocolonialism and the impossibility of monoculture in sovereign states.

Peace

Answer 9

the south is the best example-- prior to the invention of the cotton gin (1793) the one crop grown most was tobacco in the upper southern colonies (VA, NC, MD) and rice on the deep south. after the cotton gin they all changed to growing cotton.

Answer 10

I don't know what your looking for, but it sounds to me like the story about the Anti Christ supposedly solving world hunger. e.g. One Crop Economy!