1.   Nevertheless, there are reports Costa Rica will ask coffee producers to suspend exports temporarily to shore up prices.

2.   The smallest coffee producers, mostly sub-Saharan countries, are at the sharp end of fluctuations in price.

3.   Brazil, the biggest coffee producer in the world, will reduce exports in the first two months of the year following a small crop last year.

4.   Brazil, the largest coffee producer in the world, is heading into its winter months.

5.   Brazilian coffee producers typically start worrying about frosts around this time of year, as autumn descends on the Southern Hemisphere.

6.   But the group of coffee producers he works with have joined the Civic Alliance, a national group working to insure that the election is clean and fair.

7.   Coffee fell after a coffee producers voted to maintain a global export quota, signaling that growers expect to meet targets even though some will see poor crops.

8.   Coffee producers meeting in London next week are expected to lift some export controls in an attempt to stem the increase, which is threatening to reduce consumption.

9.   Coffee prices fell after coffee producers voted to maintain global export quotas, signaling that the growers expect to meet targets even after some had forecast smaller crops.