Ivory coast cocoa farmers begin a strike over low wages. If that's bad news, there's more. Swollen shoots disease threatens the Ghana and Ivory Coast cocoa crops

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Ivory Coast's cocoa farmers have gone on strike to protest low prices for the world's largest producer of cocoa.

Farmers in the trade union Anaproci, which represents 80% of Ivory Coast's 700,000 cocoa farmers, are preventing cocoa from getting to ports. Read the full chocolate strike story on the BBC news web site.

Ghana and Ivory Coast struggle to contain the spread of swollen shoot virus affecting their cocoa crops. The virus defoliates and can eventually kill cocoa trees, is threatening cocoa yields in West Africa.