Organic Foods in Brazil: A Bibliometric Study of Academic Researches Related to Organic Production Before and After the Conceptual Law

In Brazil, a series of activities and public policies aimed at regulating the production of organic food have been observed in the last decades, as well as an increase in the farmers’ interest to adopt this form of production. In 2003 the brasilian Law no. 10.831 de 23 de dezembro de 2003 defined organic agriculture. Therefore, this article has as general objective to verify the behavior of academic production regarding the topic of organic food and four related terms, which are food security, food education, sustainability and agroecology before and after the year 2003. For this purpose, the volume of scientific production was searched in the portal of scientific articles Web of Science and Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações—BDTD, in the fifteen years before and after the enactment of the afore mentioned law. It was verified that the previous production was not very expressive for all the terms. In the years after 2003, there was a significant increase in the number of publications in all that terms and in their combinations. Based on the data it was observed that there was a simultaneous growth of publications and production and demand for organic products, after the year 2003, in Brazil.