Let’s pray for the small farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast, who are facing dire harvest seasons due to a illegal mining, climate change, and disease outbreaks. These issues have contaminated water sources, degraded land, and devastated crops. The cocoa industry, vital to the region’s economy, is particularly vulnerable, with estimates suggesting that around 590,000 hectares of cocoa plantations in Ghana alone have been affected by diseases like swollen shoot virus.