Welcome to my portfolio of participatory scientific research in Agroecology and education projects for Sustainability. In this section I present my scientific production.
Introduction
My name is Vitor Moretti Zonetti. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and grew up in the interior of the state. I hold a Higher Education degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London (UAL), a degree in Social Work from São Paulo State University (UNESP), a master's degree in Sciences from the Sustainability Graduate Program at the University of São Paulo (USP), a doctorate in Sciences from the Latin American Integration Graduate Program, also at USP, and a doctorate in Agroecology from the National University of Colombia (UNAL), Bogotá campus.
My multidisciplinary background has shaped my ability to observe socio-environmental reality in its deepest dimensions. For over ten years, I have worked in popular and rural territories, especially in Latin America, to understand their root aspects and highlight them as solutions to modern problems such as the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
I do believe ancestral experiences hidden by the One World can reveal new pathways for human development. We must learn from modern technological progress, however we must highlight the situated knowledge systems promoted by the Nature-Cultures to compose societies that are able to compose the web of life in dialogism with the non-human worlds.
Scientific interests
After completing my doctoral thesis about two of Latin America's most significant agroecological experiences, I have been exploring theoretical frameworks and social practices aligned with post-humanism and new materialism. I study reality through the lens of Dialectics as logic: the most reliable method to comprehend the movement of things and the real drivers of life's manifestations.
From metabolic needs to historical possibilities, everything exists in transcorporeal interagency. Human and more-than-human worlds collide and merge in the composition of social experiences. Accepting that Culture can overcome Nature, therefore, seems completely anti-vital to me.
Keywords
Agroecology
Living agricultures
Peasant pedagogy
Posthumanism
Situated knowledge systems
Publications
This section presents my main publications from publishers, repositories, and scientific journals.
Doctoral thesis
Master's thesis
Zonetti, V. M. (2019). O desenvolvimento do projeto Agroflorestar no Assentamento Mário Lago: dos processos de aprendizagem à transformação da atividade. Dissertação de Mestrado, Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo. https://doi.org/10.11606/D.100.2019.tde-24042019-194155
Articles
Moretti Zonetti, V. (2025). Agroecological peasantry becoming and its approaches to climate change: territorial experiences in Brazil and Colombia . Brazilian Journal of Agroecology, 20(4), 467–490. https://doi.org/10.33240/rba.v20i4.57565
Moretti Zonetti, V., & Suzuki, J. C. (2025). A centralidade das agroflorestas na formação da identidade camponesa agroecológica do Assentamento Mário Lago. Retratos De Assentamentos, 28(1), 190-208. https://doi.org/10.25059/2527-2594/retratosdeassentamentos/2025.v28i1.614
Books chapters
Zonetti, V. M. (2024). Introducción a los fundamentos epistemológicos de la Educación en Agroecología: desde las prácticas campesinas hacia la formalización curricular de escuelas. In Educación a través del conocimiento (pp. 314-323). Octaedro. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36006/16441-1
Main papers presented at conferences
Zonetti, V. M. (2024). Manejando as agroflorestas do Assentamento Mário Lago: a prática agroecológica como concreticidade de um novo sistema de conhecimento. Cadernos de Agroecologia, 19(1). Disponível em: https://cadernos.aba-agroecologia.org.br/cadernos/article/view/8908
Zonetti, V. M. (2023). A Agroecologia como tema mediador da alfabetização infantil na EMEB Leonor Mendes de Barros no município de Restinga-SP: discussões sobre o ideal e a objetividade agroecológica. Cadernos de Agroecologia, 18(1). Disponível em: https://cadernos.aba-agroecologia.org.br/cadernos/article/view/7048