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
ITALY, 2019
Thousands of workers in the agricultural sector protest in a demonstration entitled "The roots of work" (Le radici del lavoro) on May 11, 2019 in Rome, Italy. Organised by agrifood unions Flai Cgil, Fai Cisl and Uila Uil, the demonstration brings attention to agricultural work and the food industry and calls for an increase in wages and renewal of national contracts. Italian agriculture has for many years been heavily reliant on migrant labour. Most of those picking crops in the Italian fields come from Africa. In the Italian south, the lives of foreign agricultural labourers are so cheap that many NGOs have described their conditions as a form of modern slavery
