Yvan Sagnet Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In February 2017, Sagnet was knighted Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by Italian president Sergio Mattarella for his work to end modern-day slavery in the Italian agricultural industry.

In 2015, Sagnet published a book about the exploitation of workers in the Italian agricultural industry with Fandango Libri. His second book, about his own experience at Masseria Boncuri, followed with Galleria Fandango in 2017.

On the morning of 30 July 2011, after only working on the fields for five days, Sagnet persuaded his fellow workers to start a strike after their employers issued an increase in workload without an increase in pay. The workers protested for two weeks, erecting a street block. The protest encompassed 350 workers from Masseria Boncuri. When faced with the issue of not being paid and starvation during their strike, he reached out to the general public for help with food donations, and the strike eventually led to local farmers agreeing to formal contracts for their workers and politicians approving an anti-gang master law, forbidding the caporali from undercutting wages by law one week after the strike had ended, in September 2011.

Sagnet arrived in Italy in 2007 to attend the Polytechnic University of Turin to study engineering through receiving a scholarship. When he failed an exam and lost his scholarship at the end of July 2011, he traveled to Salento, Nardò in Southern Italy. He started working at Masseria Boncuri, a local farm, as a tomato picker. There, Sagnet organized a protest against the inhumane working conditions on the farm that successfully lead to reforms to the regulations for working conditions in the agricultural industry.

Yvan Sagnet (born Jean Pierre Yvan Sagnet; 1985) is a Cameroonian activist and non-fiction writer, known for founding the charity No Cap and his work against the exploitation of workers in the Italian agricultural industry.