Digital Communication of Agricultural Exporting Companies in Ecuador and its Relationship with Food Security in the Context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable digital communication of agricultural exporting companies in Ecuador and its relationship with food security in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document, is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 82 publications in total. The information provided by said platform, was organized by means of graphs and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by means of a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Ecuador and Brazil, with 18 publications each, are the Latin American countries with the highest production. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of digital communication of agricultural product exporting companies and its relationship with food security in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals was computer science with 39 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the conference proceedings, which represented 55% of the total scientific production.