Enfoques predominantes en el desarrollo comunitario en latinoamérica entre 2009 y 2019

The categories of rural and agrarian development have been recurrent in the investigations carried out in Latin America due to their importance in the region. The community development involves the identification of capitals in the sense proposed by Pierre Bourdieu (1976). In Latin America, despite the diversity of the economies, many countries are agricultural and little industrialized. The main way of obtaining wealth is agriculture. The objective was to describe the rural and agrarian approach of the community development in Latin America. The present study is an explanatory-analytical type with theoretical contribution. It is classified as longitudinal-retrospective when analyzing the period between 2009 and 2019. To obtain results, were used methods at theoretical and empirical level , mainly the bibliometric one. A total of 1006 scientific articles published in journals indexed in the SciELO Citation Index database were analyzed. The role of studies on local development with a rural and agrarian focus was identified. The results show that the community development in Latin America is predominantly agrarian in correspondence with categories related to food sovereignty and rural territories.