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The term plantation is a term that is used to designate all that natural space that has been modified by humans to plant and harvest a particular type of vegetation. Plantations can be carried out for ecological or environmental purposes (for example, when a region has been deforested or damaged by fires and specimens are replanted again to maintain the ecosystem previously existing), as well as for economic purposes (for example, when we speak of sugar cane or banana plantations). In the second case, damage to the environment is significant since it assumes that a region is deforested and replanted with another type of flora, or it may also be the case that a local plant is extensively and intensively planted but when this is done in a massive way, the ecosystem is altered.

The word plantation can have a negative tinge if we resort to different moments of the history in which humans have planted different types of vegetables only for the purpose lucrative. A clear example of this was the

colonization that the Europeans made of America and Africa, both spaces that once conquered were used for the excessive generation of raw material. The most famous plantations were coffee, banana, sugar cane and tropical fruit plantations. in different regions of America, especially in the current countries of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and in the Caribbean.

These plantations have been highly damaging to the ecosystem since they caused a profound alteration of the flora and the fauna existing, as well as an exaggerated use of the natural resources. On the other hand, plantations have traditionally been organized with the use of workforce slave, especially brought from Africa and forced to work under inhumane conditions abroad, without protection, health care and care.

Beyond that, the term plantation can also be used in a positive sense when talking about plantations that are generated by the human being to replace that flora that was previously devastated and whose disappearance generates serious problems for the middle environment.

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