peasant farmer

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Castillo, a peasant farmer and former school teacher, took officein July 2021, after winning the presidency on a leftist platform to lift the poor and fund new social programs.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 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

John Pombe Magufuli, the son of a peasant farmer who became Tanzania's president in 2015, has died aged 61.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 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

If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell