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Record W7128473105 · doi:10.64903/1480-6800.21.1.58

Food Security: Theorizing the Evolution and Involution of the Concept

2018· article· W7128473105 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Adnan Shakeel

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2018
Typearticle
Language
FieldHealth Professions
TopicFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFood securityFood systemsPurchasing powerFunction (biology)Food supplyPhenomenonDimension (graph theory)

Abstract

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The concept of food security is dynamic and ever-changing. This article tries to highlight the concept of food security and its changing dimensions with respect to space and time. The article examines the shift of the concept from aggregate food availability, which is a function of domestic agricultural production, trade and food aid focusing on the supply side, to food accessibility which is a function of income or purchasing power focusing on the demand side. The analysis here also incorporates other dimensions of food security such as food stability, food utilization, food vulnerability, food sustainability, risk measurement, anthropometry, etc. Moreover, apart from providing a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the different dimensions of food security historically, the present article also tries to present the involution of the concept of food security in such a way the that it can be easily understood. Also reviewed here are the indicators and measurement processes that are currently being used by scholars of different organizations and institutions for the analysis of food security. The article concludes that the concept of food security is a dynamic and vital phenomenon and there is no benchmark or standard method to measure food security. Thus, researchers and policy makers should very judiciously choose the indicators while keeping in mind what dimension of food security they are going to deal with.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.388
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.062
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.291 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2018
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