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by animal_spirits 1464 days ago
Correct, these are papers on monocultures vs non monocultures. But GMOs are inclined to be grown in monocultures.
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All crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.