Government policy on ensuring food security: Bibliometric analysis
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.23(1).2025.38
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Article InfoVolume 23 2025, Issue #1, pp. 496-514
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Understanding the role of government policy in advancing sustainable development goals and food sovereignty is key to building food security and food system resilience. This study leverages bibliometric analysis of Scopus data using tools like Biblioshiny to explore global research trends on the interrelationship between government policies in the agrarian sector and food security. The methodology involves structured data collection, cleaning, and analysis of metadata and keywords, revealing growth in publications since the 1980s, with significant increases post-2000 due to heightened global food security concerns. The peak of publication in 2023 is connected to the war in Ukraine, the disruptions it caused to global food security, and the functioning of the grain corridor agreements. From 1922 to 2000, studies focused on broad themes like agricultural policy and food security. Between 2001 and 2010, attention shifted to food markets, sovereignty, grain production, and the Common Agricultural Policy. From 2011 to 2025, research expanded to climate-smart agriculture, dietary diversity, foreign investment, and technological advancements like data analysis and remote sensing, highlighting technology’s growing role in food security. The core themes such as “agricultural policy,” “food security,” “climate change,” and “sustainable agriculture” emerged as dominant areas of focus. Advanced topics like “machine learning,” “remote sensing,” and “climate-smart agriculture” highlight a shift toward data-driven, technologically integrated solutions for food security. China and the USA were identified as leading contributors, producing the most publications and participating in the highest number of international collaborations.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)O13, Q01, Q18, Q57
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References59
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Tables6
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- Figure 1. The dynamics of the publication focus on government policy in the agrarian sector to ensure food security
- Figure 2. Average citation per year of the sampled documents
- Figure 3. The tree map of authors’ keywords
- Figure 4. The trend topics of authors’ keywords
- Figure 5. Co-occurrence of author’s keyword networks
- Figure 6. A longitudinal thematic map analysis of the author’s keywords
- Figure 7. Factorial analysis of the author’s keywords
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- Table 1. Completeness of bibliographic metadata of sampled 1,262 documents
- Table 2. The main information of the sample
- Table А1. Top 22 most influential authors (H-Index = 4 and higher)
- Table A2. Top 17 countries affiliated with the authors who focused on government policy and food security
- Table A3. Most global cited documents
- Table A4. Most local cited documents
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