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Focus Industrial agriculture is built upon single crops, intensive use of fertilizers and concentrated land ownership. Across the world, farmers are rebelling against the forces that are chasing them from their land, destroying the environment and poisoning our food. From the landless workers’ movement in Brazil to organic farmers in Bangladesh and livestock breeders in France, their initiatives go well beyond agricultural techniques. By promoting family-based farming, they are defending a whole new set of environmental and social relations. Dossier concept and coordination by Ethirajan Anbarasan and Michel Bessières, UNESCO Courier journalists. The tar, the fracture and the bond The development of irrigated areas along the Senegal river has changed the nature of both the town of Ndioum and its people. Photos by André Lejarre, a French photographer, text by Kacha, a retired senior civil servant from Senegal. Bangladesh’s arsenic poisoning: who is to blame? Thirty years ago, Bangladeshi villages began pumping arsenic-laced water in a development project gone awry. Why will it take another 30 years to halt the biggest mass poisoning in history? Fred Pearce, U.K.-based science journalist. Breaking down the divide Europe is all for giving its “different” children a place in regular schools, but the debate over integration is far from sealed. Cynthia Guttman, UNESCO Courier journalist. Family farming: the “third way” out Moussa Para Diallo, President of the Fouta-Djalon Peasants’ Federation and of the Peasant Organizations of Guinea. Will the College crumble? The debate is only beginning over how the U.S. elects the world’s most powerful leader. Amy Otchet, UNESCO Courier journalist. Chugging along on Europe’s literary express What happens when one hundred writers spend a month without books on a train, debating in more than 40 languages and stopping along the way to meet the crowds? For one traveller, the Literature Express Europe 2000 did not live up to its dream of cultural dialogue Leo Tuor, romansh writer. White fortresses in cyberspace The face of racism changes on the Internet as preppy professionals join the ranks of the “classic” tattooed skinheads. Will they prove even more dangerous? Les Back, acting Head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College, London. This article is an edited excerpt from his forthcoming co-authored book (with Vron Ware) provisionally entitled The Trouble with Whiteness, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001. Eduardo Galeano: the open veins of McWorld The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano likes nothing better than to unmask hidden truths. In a wide-ranging interview with Danish journalist Niels Boel, he takes his scalpel to globalization, memory, cultural identity, indigenous rights—and football. Interview by Niels Boel.