Welcome to my portfolio of research in Agroecology and projects of Education for Sustainability.
Biography
My name is Vitor Moretti Zonetti, I am a Social Worker from the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, Master of Science from the Postgraduate Program in Sustainability at the University of São Paulo (USP), Doctor of Science from the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Integration (PROLAM), also at USP, and Doctor of Agroecology from the National University of Colombia (UNAL), Bogotá campus. I also have academic experiences at the University of the Arts London, England, and the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Scientific interests
Currently, I have been exploring theoretical frameworks and social practices within Naturecultures, particularly how they structure Agroecology as Other agrarian structure.
Schools of thought, theoretical frameworks and preferred concepts
Agroecology; Political Ecology; New Materialism; Peasant Pedagogies; Latin American Decolonial Thought; Dialectical Thought; Post-humanism; Agri-food Systems; Situated Knowledge Systems; Sentient-Thinking Sociology; Territories-becoming.
Publications
Doctoral thesis (Portuguese)
Zonetti, V. M. (2025). Zonetti, V. M. (2025). Agroecologia como Outra estrutura agrária: o devir camponês no Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Barra, no Brasil, e na Zona de Reserva Campesina de Cabrera, na Colômbia. Doctoral Thesis, Latin America Integration Graduate Program, University of São Paulo, São Paulo. Retrieved 2026-02-09, from https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/84/84131/tde-09022026-180434
Doctoral thesis (Spanish)
Zonetti, V. M. (2025). Zonetti, V. M. (2025). Agroecología como Otra estructura agraria: el devenir campesino en el Proyecto de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Barra, en Brasil, y en la Zona de Reserva Campesina de Cabrera, en Colômbia. Tesis de Doctorado, Doctorado en Agroecología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Recuperado en 2026-02-26, de https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/89650
Master's thesis
Zonetti, V. M. (2019). The development of 'Agroflorestar' Projectno in Mário Lago Rural Settlement: from the learning processes to the activity transfomation. Master's Dissertation, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo. doi:10.11606/D.100.2019.tde-24042019-194155. Retrieved 2026-02-10, from www.teses.usp.br
Main 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
Main 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. https://doi.org/10.36006/16441-1
Reviews
Zonetti, V. M. (2021). Transformação do sertão paulista na pintura “O lavrador de café” de Cândido Portinari. Revista Geografia Literatura e Arte, 3(2), 216-222. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-9632.geoliterart.2021.192570
Main conference papers
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). 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). https://cadernos.aba-agroecologia.org.br/cadernos/article/view/7048