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
Published: Jan 25, 2021
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JAPAN, 2014

Farmer Masami Yoshizawa gazes at cows at his cattle farm near the Exclusion Zone of the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant on May 11, 2014, in Namie, Japan. Yoshizawa, who runs the sanctuary "Ranch of Hope", for contaminated cattle, leads the movement to protect cattle that were left behind in the exclusion zone after the nuclear disaster following the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.