Process evaluation of the school meals program as part of farm to fork project in St. Kitts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The goal of the CARICOM project âFrom Farm to Forkâ is to encourage smallholder farmers to increase revenues by producing fruits, vegetables and local meat (goat) in quantities suitable for the School Meals Center to improve the food offerings for the children of the school district. This study evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the âFarm to Forkâ project in St. Kitts in its current state, and identifies potential drivers and barriers which contribute to the sustainability of the intervention. METHODS: St Kitts has 17 elementary schools which provide a daily lunch to approximately 3200 children. Four schools made changes to their menu and the others served as control schools. This research project evaluates and compares the intervention schools and the control schools in terms of cost, nutritional value provided and food waste in order to measure the impact the new menu has had on the school budget, its success in providing healthier foods to the children and how many children are consuming the options provided. RESULTS: The intervention schools provide more protein, potassium and vitamin C (p<0.05) when compared to the control schools. Calcium is low in both control and intervention schools. The intervention meals are also more costly than the control school meals (p<0.05), but servings of meat drive up the cost of the intervention meals rather than the addition of fruits and vegetables. CONCLUSION: The School Meals Center has made large changes to their food offerings and improved nutrients offered to children. Adequate calcium intake is still a challenge due to the limited consumption of dairy products. Adding extra meat is not needed and needs to be curbed. This may further contribute to cost control in the intervention meals.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".