There has been a 50% decline in farmland birds since the 1970s, which conservationists blame on large-scale agriculture and the heavy use of chemicals.

The institute has been criticized for concentrating on large-scale agriculture for export markets.

These may have been commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large-scale agriculture.

Civic agriculture represents a sustainable alternative to the potentially destructive practices of conventional, large-scale agriculture.

While fundamentally different, large-scale agriculture and organic farming are not entirely mutually exclusive.