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Exploring food security as a multidimensional topic: twenty years of scientific publications and recent developments

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  • Maria Stella Righettini

    (University of Padova)

  • Elisa Bordin

    (University of Milan)

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The scientific literature dealing with food security is vast and fragmented, making it difficult to understand the state of the art and potential development of scientific research on a central theme within sustainable development. The current article, starting from some milestone publications during the 1980s and 1990s about food poverty and good nutrition programmes, sets out the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a vast scientific production that could generate future food security research. It offers an overview of the topics that characterize the theoretical and empirical dimensions of food security, maps the state of the art, and highlights trends in publications’ ascending and descending themes. To this end the paper applies quantitative/qualitative methods to analyse more than 20,000 scientific articles published in Scopus between 2000 and 2020. Evidence suggests the need to find more robust links between micro studies on food safety and nutrition poverty and macro changes in food security, such as the impact of climate change on agricultural production and global food crises. However, the potential inherent in the extensive and multidisciplinary research on food safety encounters limitations, particularly the difficulty of theoretically and empirically connecting the global and regional dimensions of change (crisis) with meso (policy) and micro (individual behaviour) dimensions.

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  • Maria Stella Righettini & Elisa Bordin, 2023. "Exploring food security as a multidimensional topic: twenty years of scientific publications and recent developments," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 57(3), pages 2739-2758, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:qualqt:v:57:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1007_s11135-022-01452-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s11135-022-01452-3
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