date:May 05, 2012
rity, cocoa farmer Kouakou Kouame and millions like him remain mired in crushing poverty. Toiling in fields in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest grower of cocoa, Kouame's monthly earnings of $20 have never stretched far enough to buy confectionary.
I have heard cocoa beans are used to make a kind of food young children love. People say the taste is sweet, the 25-year-old said, standing in an orchard full of yellow cocoa pods.