ITALY, 2019
Thousands of workers in the agricultural sector protest in a demonstration entitled "The roots of work" (Le radici del lavoro) on May 11, 2019 in Rome, Italy. Organised by agrifood unions Flai Cgil, Fai Cisl and Uila Uil, the demonstration brings attention to agricultural work and the food industry and calls for an increase in wages and renewal of national contracts. Italian agriculture has for many years been heavily reliant on migrant labour. Most of those picking crops in the Italian fields come from Africa. In the Italian south, the lives of foreign agricultural labourers are so cheap that many NGOs have described their conditions as a form of modern slavery