COFFEE INNOVATION: GLOBAL TRENDS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Coffee is the second most consumed beverage in the world, as well as one of the most valuable commodities, providing a livelihood for 25 million farmers in the tropics. The aim of this research was to analyze recent trends in coffee innovation. The documents for this review were extracted from the Scopus database in two separate searches. The first search registered 365 documents on coffee innovations between 1977 and April 2022, and the second flagged 138 documents on the life cycle analysis (LCA) of coffee, which was the primary innovation identified. Bibliometric methodologies in VOSviewer and the RStudio bibliometrix package were used for data processing. The results showed a growing number of articles on coffee innovations since 2010, with research focused on the areas of business, management, and accounting (14.1 %); environmental sciences (11.9 %); and agricultural and biological sciences (11.8 %). In terms of document production by country, the most prominent were the United States, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The findings also revealed that the initial focus of coffee innovations was on issues related to dissemination, the human factor, and marketing. Since 2016, innovation trends have focused on sustainability evaluated through life cycle analysis originating mainly in producing countries as a response to climate change to ensure food security under a sustainable development approach.