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
COLOMBIA, 2013
Several thousand Colombian farmers marched through the streets of Bogota during a protest on December 03, 2013, in Bogota, Colombia. The farmers had said the government's agricultural policies were driving them to bankruptcy. According to them, the free trade agreements with the European Union (EU) and the US, which had recently come into force, were flooding the market with agricultural products at prices they were unable to match
