Promoting Land-Based Food Practices in the not so Rural Idyll of Northern Lebanon: Dietary Solutions from Urban Perspectives
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Abstract
This article is the result of two months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural Lebanon, studying local food harvesting, preparation and consumption practices. The study revealed the complexities of maintaining land-based lifestyles in contemporary Lebanon. It also exposed the paradoxical constructions of rural existence. In this paper, we deconstruct the mythical constructions of the rural idyll in the Lebanese village of Arsal and describe the multiple facets of local food production. If proponents of local food production are advocating for the preservation of local practices, it is critical to understand what is taking place in the communities and the environmental and economic factors they face engaging in the new global economy. Keywords: rural, rural idyll, Lebanon, land-based food practices, agriculture, health ------------------------------------------------------ Promouvoir les Pratiques Alimentaires basees sur les Ressources Naturelles dans une non-idylle rurale du Nord du Liban: Solutions Dietetiques selon des perspectives urbaines Resume Cet article est le resultat de deux mois de travail ethnographique de terrain conduit en milieu rural du Liban, pour etudier la recolte de nourriture locale, les habitudes de preparation et de consommation. L'etude a revele la complexite de maintenir un mode de vie base sur les ressources naturelles, dans un Liban contemporain. Elle a expose les structures paradoxales de l'existence rurale. Dans cet article, nous deconstruisons les structures mythiques de l'idylle rurale dans le village libanais d'Arsal et nous decrivons les multiples facettes de la production de nourriture locale. Si les partisans de la production de nourriture locale soutiennent la conservation des pratiques locales, il est critique de comprendre ce qui se passe dans les communautes ainsi que les facteurs environnementaux et economiques auxquels ils font face en s'engageant dans la nouvelle economie globale.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".