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In all, the 463 articles received 1280 citations in these 5 years, excluding self-citations. Among these articles, 1214 citations correspond to the 463 articles themselves, also excluding self-citations. This means that there is cohesion among scientists who publish on FF in Latin America. In a detailed reading of the 463 filtered articles, 219 were excluded, and 191 of these (~87%) because they dealt either only with farming or only with the family environment and not in an associated way, in themes such as agribusiness, soil study, pathologies of plants and animals, families of viruses and bacteria, among others. Of the remaining 28 discarded, 12, despite having both terms worked in an associated way, did not have family farming as the theme or study area of the article, 9 had the study area outside Latin America, 1 was in private access and 1 was not an indexed article. was an article indexed in a journal. At the end of applying the exclusion criteria, a total of 244 indexed articles were obtained, with Family Farming as an object of study, in Latin American countries, from 2016-2020 and with open access. d) Content Analysis and Categorization of Family Farming valid articles The analysis by Study Area corresponds to the place where the study was carried out, thus incorporating studies from around the world on Family Farming in Latin America. In other words, the nationality of the scientific journal or the authors was not considered, but the theoretical or empirical field of the study. The second category level is by Knowledge Area. At this level, 8 areas of knowledge were identified that refer to articles considered post-content analysis. As for national and continental studies, we are referring to the specific cases of Brazil and Latin America, respectively. As most articles refer to studies in Brazil, this one was divided into the 5 regions of the country. At the third level, called Macrocategory, 12 variations were identified among the 244 valid articles, considering Macrocategory the most comprehensive theme of the article. Among the main categories are the Social and Solidarity Economy, Social Technology, Climate Change, Occupational Health, Animal and Vegetable Production, Market, Economic Viability, among others. At the fourth level, called Microcategory, in which we consider the specific theme of each article, 44 variations were identified among the 244 valid articles. In this, specificities were observed such as Production Chains (milk, fruit, poultry, among others), Institutional State Programs (PRONAF, PNAE, PAA and PNPB), Agricultural Mechanization, Monoculture, Intoxication, Adaptability, Theoretical Studies (such as literature reviews), among others. At the fifth and final level, we evaluated the number of total citations and per year, to then arrive at the synthesis of articles and trend categories among the valid indexed articles for the five-year period 2016-2020. This last level was worked transversally in the other levels, that is, when we present that some production is highlighted in a category, we consider this highlight as being the articles with the most citations among the category to which it was assigned. e) The relationship between FF Study Area and Knowledge Area in volume of articles and main references i. Latin America In continental studies of Latin America, the production in public policies stands out, with the article on agrarian economic policy of leftist governments in Latin America and the lack of an agenda for social transformation as the protagonist (Vergara-Camus and Kay, 2017). Ecuador stands out for having 4 articles in 4 different Knowledge Areas, with a leading role in the Socioeconomics article on a study of alternative food systems and the heterogeneity of factors that motivate or not the purchase decision of agroecological and non- agroecological consumers (April-Lalonde et al., 2020). Another highlight is the study in Costa Rica, in the Food Security Knowledge Area, on the cultural domain of food plants of the Ngäbe indigenous peoples and their perception of the intense decrease in the local production of these plants in the face of new paradigms of conservation and development (D'ambrosio E Puri, 2016). ii. Brazil The number of articles found was 57 articles from national studies and another 172 from specific regions of the country. National surveys show a diversity of Knowledge Areas, covering all of them, with prevalence of the Public Policies theme, with 26 of the 57 articles. Of the 6 most cited articles with a National Study Area, 4 are on Public Policies, and of these 3 are on the National School Feeding Program (PNAE). The most relevant of them (Hawkes, et al., 2016) presents 5 lessons about the PNAE on the program's contribution to the interrelationship of family farming with other sectors, such as public health and nutrition. iii. Southern Region of Brazil At the regional level, the South region leads the volume of total articles, with emphasis on the expressive number of articles on the Socioeconomics Knowledge Area. The main article is by Rover, Genarro & Reselli (2016) on the perception of risk and consumer awareness in relation to food and the growing formation of social networks for the production and consumption © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue IV Version I 5 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 E Systematic Review of the Literature on Family Farming and the Social and Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Latin America