The United States and the OPEC countries agreed to participate in a May 2005 seminar on climate change, but they reject new negotiations. ''It's a positive step,'' says Raúl Estrada Oyuela, who proposed the face-saving meeting, approved at the close of the 10th Conference on Climate Change, in Buenos Aires.
Peasant farming families in Colombia are abandoning their illegal drug crops and staking their bets on fair trade organic coffee. They have already exported almost 5,000 sacks of coffee beans this year.
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