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
MEXICO, 1910
Mexican revolutionaries Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata assemble with their army of peasants and farmers on horseback, Mexico circa 1910. Zapata was not a peasant himself, but led peasants in his home state of Morelos in the warfare to regain their village lands and return to subsistence agriculture
