Anthony Pereira, a political scientist, has defined a peasant movement as a "social movement made up of peasants (small landholders or farm workers on large farms), usually inspired by the goal of improving the situation of peasants in a nation or territory".
政治學家安東尼·佩雷拉（英语：Anthony Pereira）定義農民運動是“由農民（為大地主工作的農民或小地主）組成的社會運動，通常的目標是提高農民在一個國家或地區的生活條件”。