THE ASSURANCE AND TECHNIFICATION OF FOOD SECURITY IN LATIN AMERICA AS A RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF SUFFICIENT AND HEALTHY FOOD

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variables Food Security, Technification and World Food Crisis. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017- 2022, achieving the identification of 56 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized through graphs and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors towards the proposed theme is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that India with 11 publications was the Latin American country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that nation. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Food Security, Technification and World Food Crisis was Environmental Sciences with 22 published documents, and the Type of Publication most used during the period indicated above were Journal Articles with 39% of the total scientific production.