Yvan Sagnet

Biography Sagnet was born in Douala, Cameroon.

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,

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.

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.

Nardò uprising and aftermath While working at the Massaria Boncuri, Sagnet discovered the caporalato, a system revolving around the caporali, who illegally recruit tomato workers in a gang-like manner that Sagnet describes as comparable to "modern-day slavery"

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.

No Cap Sagnet is the founder of the No Cap Association, a reward system working with report cards, evaluating how ethically goods have been produced through the parameters ethics, energy, circularity, added value and short supply chain. The organization advocates for the ethical employment of tomato pickers through regulated contracts and without a caporalato, promoting the integration of ethically produced goods into the mainstream consumer market.