Short answers, pulled from the story.
M. Thomas Inge defined agrarianism as a philosophy placing the farmer above all other social roles because farming offers total independence and self-sufficiency. He argued that urban life, capitalism, and technology destroy human dignity while fostering vice instead of virtue.
The Green International functioned primarily as an information center spreading agrarian ideas across Europe between 1920 and 1930. It operated based on peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Serbia but launched no significant activities despite its existence.
Thomas Jefferson believed farmers were the most valuable citizens for the budding American democracy because they exemplified morality and virtue. He feared over-industrialization would create wage slaves relying on employers for income who could cease being independent voters if manipulated by their bosses.
An estimated 15 to 30 million Chinese people died over three years following bad weather combined with failed techniques during the Great Leap Forward. This famine began in 1959 after experiments with planting crops failed to produce results despite massive scale irrigation efforts.
Conservative forces crushed the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader Aleksandar Stamboliyski. He lived from 1879 until his death in 1923 while serving as prime minister of Bulgaria.