Fabio Gatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 250961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabio Gatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabio |
| FAMILY NAME | Gatti |
| SIGNATURE | GATTI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5165-693X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conservation dilemmas
Over the past decade, the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa has profoundly transformed olive-growing landscapes in the southern Italian region of Apulia. Once characterized by ancient olive trees that sustained both rural livelihoods and cultural identities, the region is now caught between two competing trajectories: on the one hand, efforts to intensify and mechanize production to remain competitive in global olive oil markets; on the other hand, at…
Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management
Societal Impact Statement Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy. We show that the conflict cannot be reduced to a confrontation between science and “science de…
Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa
Platforms' high subscription rates hide limited, uneven, and short-lived smallholders' use. • Limited use reflects design flaws and socio-technical misfits, not farmers' deficits. • Top-down platform models reinforce power asymmetries and limit farmers' autonomy. • Peer networks, extension services, and low-tech tools often outperform platforms. • Human mediation is crucial for the overall functioning of digital Ag technologies
Plant disease detonators
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Over the past decade, thousands of centuries-old olive trees in the Southern Italian region of Apulia dried out and the whole olive farming sector teetered on the brink. Despite having been framed, by the phytosanitary authorities, as an exclusively technical agricultural problem related to the spread of a biological threat—the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa—this paper ar…
Saving the Olive Trees? Ontological Politics and Plant Disease Governance in Apulia, Southern Italy
In Apulia, everyone wants to “save the olive trees”—yet what is to be saved is far from clear. Since 2013, the spread of Xylella fastidiosa and Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) has devastated Southern Italy’s groves and triggered a highly contested phytosanitary crisis. This paper argues that the controversy cannot be reduced to technical uncertainty, knowledge disagreement, or economic interests alone; it is also an ontological conflict—a str…
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica
Quantifying Trade from Renaissance Merchant Letters
Medieval and Early-Modern business correspondence between European companies constitutes a rich source of economic, business, and trade information in that the writ- ing of letters was the very instrument through which merchants ordered and organized the shipments of goods, and performed financial operations. While a comprehensive analysis of such material enables scholars to re-construct the supply chains and sales of various goods, as well as i…
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
Postcards from Brazil
O cenário político brasileiro vem sofrendo mudanças nos últimos anos. Em 2016, a presidência da república sofre um golpe que culmina na destituição da então presidente Dilma Rous-seff (PT- Partido dos trabalhadores). Com base nessa nova configuração política, o artista Gilvan Barreto realiza o trabalho Postcards from Brazil: cicatrizes da paisagem. Sensível aos desencadeamentos do período e, sobretudo, atento à ascensão da extrema direita, ele re…
Rousselfie Project
Rousselfie Project» é um projeto artístico elaborado com fotografias de autorretratos, usando um smartphone, onde sempre aparece o pau de selfie. O trabalho surge como proposição para tratar do momento político atual do Brasil, acentuado a partir da queda de popularidade do governo de Dilma Rousseff após os escândalos da Petrobrás. Este fato me conduziu a pensar, artisticamente, em um modo de ressignificar tais enfrentamentos, ao mesmo tempo em q…
Entre a funcionalidade e a criatividade
Resenha do livro de André Rouillé, "A Fotografia Entre Documento e ArteContemporânea". São Paulo: Senac, 2009
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
Entre a funcionalidade e a criatividade
Resenha do livro de André Rouillé, "A Fotografia Entre Documento e ArteContemporânea". São Paulo: Senac, 2009
Rousselfie Project
Rousselfie Project» é um projeto artístico elaborado com fotografias de autorretratos, usando um smartphone, onde sempre aparece o pau de selfie. O trabalho surge como proposição para tratar do momento político atual do Brasil, acentuado a partir da queda de popularidade do governo de Dilma Rousseff após os escândalos da Petrobrás. Este fato me conduziu a pensar, artisticamente, em um modo de ressignificar tais enfrentamentos, ao mesmo tempo em q…
Postcards from Brazil
O cenário político brasileiro vem sofrendo mudanças nos últimos anos. Em 2016, a presidência da república sofre um golpe que culmina na destituição da então presidente Dilma Rous-seff (PT- Partido dos trabalhadores). Com base nessa nova configuração política, o artista Gilvan Barreto realiza o trabalho Postcards from Brazil: cicatrizes da paisagem. Sensível aos desencadeamentos do período e, sobretudo, atento à ascensão da extrema direita, ele re…
Quantifying Trade from Renaissance Merchant Letters
Medieval and Early-Modern business correspondence between European companies constitutes a rich source of economic, business, and trade information in that the writ- ing of letters was the very instrument through which merchants ordered and organized the shipments of goods, and performed financial operations. While a comprehensive analysis of such material enables scholars to re-construct the supply chains and sales of various goods, as well as i…
Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science
Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …
Marriage, Financial Constraints, and Morality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Jamaica
Conservation dilemmas
Over the past decade, the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa has profoundly transformed olive-growing landscapes in the southern Italian region of Apulia. Once characterized by ancient olive trees that sustained both rural livelihoods and cultural identities, the region is now caught between two competing trajectories: on the one hand, efforts to intensify and mechanize production to remain competitive in global olive oil markets; on the other hand, at…
Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management
Societal Impact Statement Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy. We show that the conflict cannot be reduced to a confrontation between science and “science de…
Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa
Platforms' high subscription rates hide limited, uneven, and short-lived smallholders' use. • Limited use reflects design flaws and socio-technical misfits, not farmers' deficits. • Top-down platform models reinforce power asymmetries and limit farmers' autonomy. • Peer networks, extension services, and low-tech tools often outperform platforms. • Human mediation is crucial for the overall functioning of digital Ag technologies
Plant disease detonators
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Over the past decade, thousands of centuries-old olive trees in the Southern Italian region of Apulia dried out and the whole olive farming sector teetered on the brink. Despite having been framed, by the phytosanitary authorities, as an exclusively technical agricultural problem related to the spread of a biological threat—the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa—this paper ar…
Saving the Olive Trees? Ontological Politics and Plant Disease Governance in Apulia, Southern Italy
In Apulia, everyone wants to “save the olive trees”—yet what is to be saved is far from clear. Since 2013, the spread of Xylella fastidiosa and Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) has devastated Southern Italy’s groves and triggered a highly contested phytosanitary crisis. This paper argues that the controversy cannot be reduced to technical uncertainty, knowledge disagreement, or economic interests alone; it is also an ontological conflict—a str…
Politics (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sociology of scientific knowledge (2 works)