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Record W2945302380 · doi:10.4324/9780429048630-9

The Promise of Food and Climate Information Systems

2019· book-chapter· en· W2945302380 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James D. McQuigg

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAgricultural Innovations and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFood systemsEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningBusinessGeographyFood securityNatural resource economicsEnvironmental scienceEconomicsAgriculture

Abstract

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The promise of an effective food and climate information system is to improve the management of production, processing and distribution of food. Continuing increase in world population, together with rising expectations for a better standard of living, has put additional pressure on food supplies, and at times has increased the magnitude of the impact of climatic variability on food production and distribution systems. The African Sahel has been a chronic food problem region for hundreds of years, supporting only marginal agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization had disrupted the precarious balance of the traditional land-use system." A food and climate information system, if properly used, can yield important savings to a chronic food problem country willing to invest scarce resources and allocate its limited scientific-technical manpower to its development and operation. One of the best examples of a food and climate information system at work is the one functioning within the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0110.016
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.006

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.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.180 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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