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Current estimates indicate that 200,000 undocumented migrants work in Italian agriculture alone (Photo: tpmartins)

Undocumented workers are Covid-19 'elephant in room'

Over the last few weeks, politicians and business associations have sounded the alarm on the disruption in Europe's food supply chains, and particularly in agriculture.

Lockdown measures, the halt to intra-EU circulation and the ban on international travel to Europe have left farmers across Europe facing a shortage of hundreds of thousands of workers.

This alludes to a pan European and systemic issue: from Spain and Italy t...

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Leila Bodeux and Davide Gnes are policy and advocacy officers at Caritas Europa - a Catholic network of 49 member organisations in 46 countries across the continent working with people in vulnerable situations.

Current estimates indicate that 200,000 undocumented migrants work in Italian agriculture alone (Photo: tpmartins)

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Leila Bodeux and Davide Gnes are policy and advocacy officers at Caritas Europa - a Catholic network of 49 member organisations in 46 countries across the continent working with people in vulnerable situations.

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