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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NICARAGUA, 2015

Indigenous Nicaraguans swim in the clear waters of Lake Cocibolca. When it became apparent that the route of the proposed Chinese-financed 278 km interoceanic canal project would displace and relocate the indigenous Nicaraguans, with the loss of their farms and their land, and would impact the protected San Miguelito wetlands and lake Cocibolca, a valued water resource, the support for the project dropped significantly