Of course large-scale farming has the opportunity to contribute to food
security and to export some agricultural products.However, large-scale production has
some disadvantages. Large-scale farms and large processing farms, financed with
foreign capital, often concentrate on one or some monocultures, with, like in western
industrialized agriculture, less attention for social, human and ecological values. There
is the danger of concentration on ever increasing production volumes, relying on the
application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This large-scale farming is highly
energy-intensive (energy not only used for the production of fertilizers and pesticides,
but also for transportation of food across long distances). At the same time the
industrial agriculture entails depopulation of rural areas, unhealthy diets, groundwater
pollution and soil erosion