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
FRANCE, 1992
Angered by American agricultural trade policies, tractor-driving French farmers blocked the entrance to the new Euro Disneyland outside Paris on June 26th, 1992, preventing several hundred families and busloads of schoolchildren from entering the park. "Euro Disneyland is the symbol of an American culture that has invaded our country," Daniel Deswards, one of the leaders of the protesting farmers was quoted as saying. "Now the Americans want to do the same thing to our agriculture."
