Organizing for food sovereignty in Manitoba: small scale farmers, communities of resistance, and the local food movement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the past decade, a number of high profile incidents affecting small scale farmers in Manitoba have given rise to vibrant communities of resistance. These communities are developing alternative ways of thinking about and engaging with food and agriculture in the province for food systems transformation. Based on empirical research involving 18 interviews with urban-based activists and farmers, and one focus group, this study examines these catalytic moments and the conditions under which they form to better understand whether and how they contribute to the creation of an emerging food sovereignty movement in Manitoba. I argue that although not all initiatives were successful in achieving stated goals, they did have positive political and social impacts, mainly through the building of community and development of collective voice. Despite the diversity found within the local food movement, and a tense relationship between decision-makers and small scale farmers, these communities of resistance leveraged opportunities for change and captured the attention of regulators to advance the local food community in Manitoba. In doing so, they are creating the conditions within which the radical discourse and practice of food sovereignty is beginning to emerge.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".