Barriers to food system localization: Building on the world systems perspective
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is an investigation of the barriers to localization of food systems based on a world systems perspective. The proliferation of a consolidated and global food network has strained natural resources, degraded ecosystems and their functions, compounded wealth and income disparity, compromised food security and eroded rural communities. This study heightens the understanding of why the globalization of food continues and opposing movements fail to translate into societal change. Addressing the research problem required focus group sessions with local stakeholders selected from within Guelph-Wellington County. Local stakeholders convened and identified barriers they perceived. Institutional support for the global system, competitive advantage of global food and entrenched consumer loyalties were barriers consistent with world systems theory. In addition, stakeholders identified local organizational capacity, imbalanced supply and demand, transportation challenges and transitional risk and costs. Local action as well as high-level policy reform is required in a well-coordinated manner.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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