Except these trees are unlike anything I 've seen before ; a quirk of evolution , they would look at home in C.S . CNN 's Freedom Project returned to Africa 's cocoa plantations to look for progress in fight against child labor . Ivory Coast produces more than one third of all the world 's cocoa , but many farmers live in poverty . In a country where children are often forced into work as young as 12 years old and some have been trafficked across borders or sold on the black market, it is hard to know how much has changed since Growers ' position at the bottom of the cocoa value chain means they see just a tiny proportion of the cost of a chocolate bar .
CNN 's Freedom Project returned to Africa 's cocoa plantations to look for progress in fight against child labor . Ivory Coast produces more than one third of all the world 's cocoa , but many farmers live in poverty . In a country where children are often forced into work as young as 12 years old and some have been trafficked across borders or sold on the black market, it is hard to know how much has changed since Growers ' position at the bottom of the cocoa value chain means they see just a tiny proportion of the cost of a chocolate bar .