peasant farmer
Humble land worker
A peasant farmer works a small plot of land, typically for subsistence rather than profit.
The term emphasizes traditional agricultural methods and economic vulnerability—peasant farmers often lack modern equipment, secure land tenure, or access to markets.
Peasant farmers in the region still plant by hand.
The phrase appears most in development economics and discussions of rural poverty in the Global South.
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
- small holdingModest subsistence farm
- family plotReserved graves for relatives
- barter systemCashless exchange method
- market dayScheduled commerce gathering
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- farm workersfarmworker, hired hand, field hand, farmhand, harvester
- farmersgrower, smallholder, cultivator, rancher, homesteader
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, field hand, fieldworker, hired hand
- livestock workerscowboy, rancher, cattleman, cowherd, cowhand
- rural workersfarmhand, farmworker, field hand, agricultural worker, rural laborer
- land tenurefreehold, leasehold, land ownership, tenancy, tenure system
peasant farmerlandowner
One possessing real estate
landlord · landed gentry · estate owner · plantation owner · feudal lord
peasant farmeraristocrat
Person of noble birth
noble · nobleman · lord · feudal lord · aristocracy
peasant farmercity dweller
Urban area inhabitant
urbanite · factory worker · townsman · bourgeois · merchant
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