How did the increased use of cash-crop agriculture during the 19th century affect farmers?

It also raises global interdependency as land is used for cash-crops rather than food and countries cease to be self-sufficient in that vital industry, eroding national sovereignty. ... Most often cash cropping farmers employ mono- cropping – the production of a single crop on a piece of land

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.