Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Food Systems
Following the development of sustainability-related topics, its connection with the food sector could not be overlooked. Therefore, the need for constructing a functioning sustainable food system has emerged. This piece of research comes as a support for knowledge development regarding sustainabl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura ASE
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Amfiteatru Economic |
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| Online Access: | https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3368.pdf |
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| Summary: | Following the development of sustainability-related topics, its connection with the food
sector could not be overlooked. Therefore, the need for constructing a functioning
sustainable food system has emerged. This piece of research comes as a support for
knowledge development regarding sustainable food systems, being a synthetic
documentation source. Most of the studies on this topic have focused on the main parts of
the food system and how they might turn to sustainability. However, recently, the focus has
turned to the food system analysed as a whole puzzle.
Therefore, the present paper aims at providing an overall image of the sustainable food
system and its components as they appear in the worldwide recognised Scopus database
indexed literature, up to this point, in order to identify what the common puzzle pieces in
different authors perspectives are and to what extent has the interest of authors increased
regarding sustainable food systems. By using the VOSviewer application on a group of
articles and book chapters provided by the Scopus database on the key topic of “sustainable
food systems”, we constructed a correlation map of most used key terms. Thus, this paper
indicates the main topics related to a sustainable food system, and the main research
directions on this hot topic.
The findings show that there is a considerable increase in the number of research papers on
this topic, the first papers being published only around 2008. Also, the interest of authors
regarding the research of both consumers and producers’ behaviours regarding sustainable
development is on an ascending trend. By investigating the Scopus database on 21st of
March, 2024 and through the analysis elaborated for the 1972-2024 time frame, we
observed that the most used key words in the analysed content were: “knowledge” (125 ccurrences), “food security” (166 occurrences), “consumer” (220 occurrences) and
“product” (121 occurrences), suggesting that finding a sustainable way of providing
sustainable food choices and ensuring food security are current issued that bring up interest
for scholars, and authorities alike. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-9146 2247-9104 |