Community Freezers Supporting Food Security: Perspectives from Residents of Nain, Nunatsiavut
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Changing environments are challenging access to wild foods; resources, which are valued by Inuit for health benefits, often surpass that of available market foods. Community freezer initiatives are gaining popularity as one option to help support wild food access, and thus food security, in northern Canada. Little information exists, however, about how these initiatives help facilitate wild food access for residents. A case study was undertaken in Nain, Nunatsiavut to understand: (1) how the Nain community freezer influences access to wild foods; and (2) key factors that community freezer management could consider to better support food security in their communities. Results indicate characteristics of the socio-cultural, economic, and natural environment are challenging wild food access for Nain community freezer users. Factors for consideration in future management include: issues of supply, dependency, social exclusion, and tensions between the feasibility of operations and the representation of traditional values.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".