Municipal Development Regulations and Agriculture Across Newfoundland and Labrador: A Scoping Review
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Abstract
Communities, particularly those rural and remote, must bolster food security efforts and build a robust local food infrastructure to promote health and to protect against supply chain disruption. Yet these efforts must look inwards, to the community and current developments, to expand agricultural capacity without expanding the agricultural footprint and climate impact. This scoping review charted how the municipalities of Newfoundland and Labrador defined, zoned and regulated agricultural activities with a focus on how urban agriculture and personal food production would be regulated. This review identified extensive regulatory barriers to small-scale agriculture from a persistence of outdated standards and conditions. Innovation and acceptance of urban agriculture appeared in a few communities whose regulations and experience could guide change throughout the province. A regulatory framework is proposed for small-scale urban agriculture from elements already in use within communities that defines urban agriculture as an accessory use class to simplify and standardize municipal agricultural regulations. As incorporated municipal boundaries historically contain the most arable lands and the majority of the provincial workforce, sustainable local agriculture must start with a renegotiation of municipal relationships with agriculture. Keywords: urban agriculture, municipal regulations, community development, food security _____________________________________ Règlements sur le développement municipal et agricole à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador : un examen de la portée Les communautés, en particulier celles rurales et éloignées, doivent renforcer les efforts de sécurité alimentaire et construire une infrastructure alimentaire locale solide pour promouvoir la santé et se protéger contre les perturbations de la chaîne d'approvisionnement. Pourtant, ces efforts doivent se tourner vers l'intérieur, vers la communauté et les développements actuels, pour accroître la capacité agricole sans augmenter l'empreinte agricole et l'impact climatique. Cet examen de la portée a tracé la façon dont les municipalités de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ont défini, zoné et réglementé les activités agricoles en mettant l'accent sur la façon dont l'agriculture urbaine et la production alimentaire personnelle seraient réglementées. Cet examen a identifié d'importants obstacles réglementaires à l'agriculture à petite échelle dus à la persistance de normes et de conditions obsolètes. L'innovation et l'acceptation de l'agriculture urbaine sont apparues dans quelques collectivités dont les règlements et l'expérience pourraient guider le changement dans toute la province. Un cadre réglementaire est proposé pour l'agriculture urbaine à petite échelle à partir d'éléments déjà utilisés au sein des communautés qui définit l'agriculture urbaine comme une classe d'utilisation accessoire pour simplifier et normaliser les réglementations agricoles municipales. Comme les limites municipales incorporées contiennent historiquement la plupart des terres arables et la majorité de la main-d'œuvre provinciale, l'agriculture locale durable doit commencer par une renégociation des relations municipales avec l'agriculture.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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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".