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Alternative Food Consumption Styles: Academic Debate and Reflections for Society and Agrifood Markets
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This work aimed to analyze the evolution of the academic debate about alternative consumption styles, considering their concepts, characteristics, principles, and thematic axes addressed. Freeganism, locavorism, flexitarianism, and climaterianism were considered alternative consumption styles. Methodologically, quantitative and qualitative bibliometric research was carried out. Scopus was used as a database, considering the following search keywords “freegan*” or “locavor*” or “flexitarian*” or “climatarian*”. After using the inclusion and exclusion criteria (article-type documents and alignment with the theme), 59 articles were selected without temporal delimitation. In 2009, the first article on the subject was registered, maintaining an average of 2,75 articles per year until 2021, when there was an increase in scientific production, jumping to 12 studies in that year. Over that time, flexitarianism, followed by locavorism were the most studied styles, indicating greater interest from the scientific community. Regarding the qualitative analysis, three thematic axes were classified around alternative consumption styles: a) characteristics, principles, and ideologies; b) motivations; c) consequences for society and agrifood markets. Finally, it should be noted that alternative food styles can impact agri-food markets to encourage more sustainable production systems and fairways of marketing.
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