Locust Infestations and Mobile Phones: Exploring the Potential of Digital Tools to Enhance Early Warning Systems and Response Mechanisms
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the knowledge levels and prevalence of locusts in the Sikaunzwe Agricultural camp in Zambia, as well as the association between mobile phone ownership and access to locust information. The study found that the majority of the sampled population were male, married, and engaged in farming as their primary occupation, with limited formal education. A significant proportion of the population had experienced locust outbreaks in the year preceding the survey, with the majority able to recognize the signs of locust outbreaks but only a small proportion having received training in locust management. Mobile phones were found to be a valuable tool for accessing and reporting locust information, but a significant proportion of the population did not own mobile phones. These findings have important policy implications for improving agricultural practices and management in the region, increasing training and awareness programs for locust management, and promoting the use of mobile technology to disseminate critical information to farmers in remote areas.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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 it