Cocoa in Africa

A worker stands among sacks of cocoa beans as they are loaded for shipment at the port in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 10, 2011.

Cocoa swollen shoot virus (World Cocoa Foundation)

Farmers break cocoa pods in Ghana's eastern cocoa town of Akim Akooko September 6, 2012.

Pod of cocoa plant with black pod infection (left) next to a normal pod (right) (World Cocoa Foundation)

Cocoa plant with helopeltis damage (World Cocoa Foundation)

Farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo arranges cocoa beans, laid out to dry on reed mats, on a cocoa farm outside the village of Fangolo, near Duekoue Ivory Coast, May 31, 2011.