A Feminist Analysis of Social Impact Investments: Implications for Food Sovereignty and Social Reproduction in Rural Senegal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis research explores the program Adaptation and Valorization for Entrepreneurship in Irrigated Agriculture (AVENIR); funded by the Government of Canada and Mennonite Economic Development Assistance (MEDA). The program operates in Sedhiou and Tambacounda, Senegal, and aims to empower women in rural food systems. Foreign aid programs targeting gendered empowerment, otherwise known as social impact investments, are financial mechanisms that require investigation. Grounded in a decolonial feminist analysis, this thesis investigates food sovereignty, social reproduction, and social-ecological reproduction. Semi-structured interviews discuss the challenges of foreign imposition, agricultural programs and the future of agroecology. A critical policy analysis (CPA) discusses AVENIR policies and frameworks, offering gaps in the program, its potential consequences and avenues for development. Interview contributions illuminate potential paths forward for Canadian-funded programs and the future of food systems in Senegal. The insights feed into community participation and consultation, agroecological methods, and knowledge-sharing practices.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 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".