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Record W7000991357

Identifying and differentiating farm-community linkages in organic farming in Ontario

2006· dissertation· en· W7000991357 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Atrium (University of Guelph) · 2006
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicOrganic Food and Agriculture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrganic farmingAgricultureCommoditySample (material)Diversity (politics)Ecological farmingFood systems
DOInot available

Abstract

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In contrast to recent critiques of 'industrial agriculture', organic farming has enjoyed long-standing claim over the notion that organics is inherently 'good' for communities. Recent recognition of the emergent structural diversity of the organic farm sector introduces considerable complexity in understanding the nature and importance of connections between organic farming and the local community and food system. This research examines social and economic linkages between organic producers and communities across a sample of farm enterprises that reflect the cross section of commodity and structural characteristics present in Ontario, Canada. Findings are based upon interviews conducted with nearly seventy organic farmers in southern Ontario and provide evidence for strong farm-community linkages. However, the expected, and demonstrated, reality is that the nature and strength of this assumed relationship is at least somewhat contingent on the enterprise characteristics of the organic farms in question.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.145

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations0
Published2006
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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