Profile of research in sustainable production with a focus on industry and agriculture processes

Abstract

Introduction— The excessive use of natural resources and their demand for the growing population have given importance to sustainability as the main strategy to mitigate the shortage and avoid the depletion of natural resources, contributing to reduce the damage caused to the environment and so adjacent social and economic problems. For this reason, the way how it is produced and consumed need to be changed.

Objective— The purpose of this study is to identify trends, analyze patterns and establish fields of action in the review of the information that has been generated to date from global research on Sustainable Production (SP) with a focus on processes related to the industry and agriculture, all this with the intention of identifying relevant factors such as trends, most notable authors, countries with the greatest contributions, among other aspects..

Methodology— For this, an analysis process was applied based on the models of technological surveillance and scientometrics, which allowed to describe the characteristics and identify the patterns and trends of the research field.

Results— The documents published for the industrial sector are 2 003 and for the agricultural sector are 2 149 until the 3rd of December 2020, it found that the United States is the largest producer of scientific research in both areas, and the thematic area with the highest production in the industry is Engineering and in the agriculture are the agricultural and biological sciences.

Conclusions— Agriculture presented greater scientific production, this is due to the concern of being able to satisfy the food demand of the growing population, reduce the contaminating agents generated in the production process to conserve biodiversity, ensure the parameters of food security and sustainability while it generate socio-economic benefits for farmers.