The Grim Reaper: Major farmer protests around the world in the past 100 years
One of the largest protests in human history got the world's attention as hundreds of thousands of farmers marched to India's capital and set up camp at its borders to protest the new farm laws. As this visual survey of past protests show, farmers the world over have been trapped by bureaucratic and oppressive government policies, exploitation by landholders, crippling debts, losses on marketed goods, and devastating weather, leading to some significant protests in those countries
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
INDIA, 2021
Farmers warm themselves around a bonfire on a cold winter night at Ghazipur border, on January 1, 2021, in New Delhi, India. India has enacted new farm laws that lift restrictions on where and to whom farmers can sell their crops. But the farmers are protesting this purported new economic freedom, because they perceive the new system to be risky and favoring big corporations, and fear that the new laws will make family-owned farms unviable
