The London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project

Abstract

In May 1979 at a meeting of the Inter-American Cocoa Disease Foundation (CIEC) in Quito it was decided to start a prog­ramme of
collecting wild cocoa in Ecuador. This collecting programme became known as the London Cocoa Trade Amazon Pro­ject, because it was funded by the London Cocoa Market. Local facilities were provided by a research organisation in  Ecuador (Institute Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuaris or INIAP). The project began in January 1980.