The Role of Home Gardens in Household Food Security in Eastern Cape: A Case Study of Three Villages in Nkonkobe Municipality
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Household gardening activities remains an important avenue for food production for most urban and peri-urban populace. The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between home gardening and household food security in the study area. The specific objectives were to determine the demographic characteristics of farmers in relation to income generated from home garden and examine the role of home garden in household food security. The findings reveals that the mean estimated income earned from vegetable production per year was 473.39 Rand (standard deviation=170.613, N=90), with the mean land size used for farming of 233.60 m2 (standard deviation=31.545, N=90). A correlation between estimated income generated by household per year in Rand from garden produce and land size was conducted to determine whether revenue from gardening could in fact be assessed by land size. Results demonstrated that land size and estimated income generated were positively correlated (r = 0.84, p < .001). In sum, home gardening remains an avenue for enhancing food security, health and social interrelation of households in the contemporary South African society.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".