Marco Omizzolo has written numerous national and international essays regarding the severe exploitation of the workforce in agriculture with particular attention on foreign labour. He is a professor at University Sapienza of Rome in Sociopolitology of migrations and sociologist of Eurispes. He was the first to have studied the international labour trafficking of Indian migrants in Italy. He followed an Indian human trafficker to India for three months, studying his relationships and recruitment methods. His research focuses on Italian and foreign mafias, caporalato, agromafia and ecomafia; in his fieldwork he worked for several months as an undercover labourer in Italy and India. In 2016 he was one of the leading figures of the occupation of farmland in the Province of Latina alongside the Indian day labourers and of the 18 April strike in the same year. In 2018 he received a honour from the Italian President of the Republic for his loyalty in exposing crimes against humanity (Cavalier of Italian Republic). He has been recognized by the U.N. as a Human Right Defender.