peasant farmer
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Left-wing Castillo, a former teacher and peasant farmer raised in a poor family in Peru's rural Andes, came to power last year.
From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2022
Nicolas Ferrand, the proprietor of Domaine des Côtes Rousses, calls himself a paysan vigneron, a peasant farmer and winemaker.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021
“A Hidden Life” tells the story of Franz Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer from the Austrian village of St. Radegund who was imprisoned and executed in 1943 for refusing to fight for the Nazis.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2019
Last week, peasant farmer organisations in the region, around Catatumbo, blocked the demobilisation of Farc units saying that their departure would leave them unprotected as the paramilitary groups gathered nearby.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2017
If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
