Análise bibliométrica da produção científica sobre plantas alimentícias não convencionais - PANC

Abstract

Based on the fact that food is one of the main problems of today's society, it isimportant to raise ways of how to get around it in a safe and nutritious way. In thissense, strategies are considered as models that involve techniques for sustainableagriculture and that work against the logic of the current hegemonic model ofproduction, bringing social, economic and ecological benefits. These models areimportant agents in the consolidation of the rescue of the NCFP (Non-ConventionalFood Plants), since they demonstrate ease of establishment and need for littlehandling, in addition to representing diversity in the dish. In this study, the objectivewas to deepen the state of the art of Panc, in order to advance the studies on thesubject, proposing the use of these plants as a promising alternative against hunger.Bibliometric methods were applied in order to understand how research on Pancs iscarried out worldwide. For this, 2056 articles were collected from research with 50search terms (of which 26 returned results), retrieved from theplatform Web ofScience (Thomsom Reuters) and analyzed using the Rstudio software bibliometrixpackage. It was observed that there is an increase in the publication of articles on thetopic, especially from 1996 onwards. The most relevant source on the topic is theJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, based on the number of documents.The country with the highest number of citations on the topic is the United States,with Brazil occupying the 28th position. Among the most cited words in the articletitles, terms such as observed: wild, plants, edible, vegetable, food, traditional,indigenous, antioxidant, flowers and plant. No matter how much research isperceived on the subject, there is still a scenario of insipience starting from theparameter of the quantity of plants understood as existing 'unconventional'.