The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Public policy over the last three decades in Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) is characterized by neoliberal approaches to governance resulting in the imposition of austerity, declining investment in public works, and reduced management of the economy. The effects of these public policies are manifest in growing income insecurity, precarious employment, and housing unaffordability. One of the most egregious effects has been the growing number of Canadians and UK citizens unable to afford food. The term used to depict this situation is food insecurity. This volume takes special aim at how the political economies of Canada and the UK create food insecurity and how the dominant response of food charities does little to reduce these problems and may be making them worse. It shows how corporate social responsibility is actually a smokescreen for diverting the attention of policymakers, the media, and the public from the sources of food insecurity, making their solutions more difficult. Finally, the volume identifies means by which citizen action can respond to the food crisis. This may involve radical reform or transformations of food production and distribution systems or the economic system itself.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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 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".