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
SOUTH KOREA, 2003
South Korean farmers clash with riot police after the funeral ceremony for farm union leader Lee Kyung-Hae on September 20, 2003, in Seoul, South Korea. Kyung-Hae killed himself in Mexico outside a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He was protesting the WTO placing increasing pressure on South Korea to open up its agricultural sector to international competition
