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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PALESTINE TERRITORY, 2008

A Palestinian farmer feeds sheep with flowers in Rafah, a Palestinian city in southern Gaza Strip, on February 14, 2008. Palestinian farmers dumped truckloads of flowers at the Sufa border crossing with Israel on Thursday, feeding some of the crop to sheep, as a protest over Israeli export restrictions which prevent them from exporting their blooms to Europe for Valentine's Day