Abstract
This article focuses on the scientific, political and entrepreneurial networks that favored the expansion of the oil palm in Ecuador (1961-2021) during the Green Revolution period, which involved the promotion of crops for industrial transformation. The purpose is to highlight the articulation that emerged around the oil palm and the relationship between the National Agricultural Research Institute (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAP) and the National Association of Palm Producers (Asociación Nacional de Cultivadores de Palma, ANCUPA). The analysis is based on data from the INIAP archives at the INIAP-Santa Catalina Experimental Station. The main conclusion is that palm expansion responded to a cultural assemblage of power relations in which physical, social, financial, scientific and technical elements converged.
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