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Programme on Food, Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Poverty

UNU Development Studies Division. Projects on Food and Nutrition and Biotechnology

Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Programme Director for Food and Nutrition, and Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Dr. Abraham Besrat, Senior Programme Officer, Biotechnology; and Training and Fellowship Officer
Mr. Mark Dapolito, Assistant Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin*
Mrs. Sarah Jeffries, Editorial Consultant, Food and Nutrition Bulletin*
Ms. Karen Mitzner, Supplements Editor*
Ms. Rebecca Chamberlain, Fellowship Officer*

*Part-time in the Cambridge office of the programme: E38-756, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Tel. (617) 253-7617. Cable: MIT CAM. Telex: 92-1473 MIT CAM.

Associated institutions

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)
Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Tel. 43762. Cable: INCAP GUATEMALA. Co-ordinator:
Dr. Maarten D. C. Immink

The Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP)
Nutrition Center of the Philippines Bldg., South Super Highway,
Nichols Interchange, Makati, Metro Manila 3116, Philippines.
Tel. 85-30-71 to -79. Cable: NUTRICEN MANILA. Coordinator:
Dr. Mercedes de Solon

Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
Mysore 570013, India. Tel. 22298. Cable: UNVERCENT MYSORE.
Telex: 0846-241 FTRI IN. Co-ordinator: Dr. B. L. Amla

Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA)
University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile, Tel. 214105, 214030. Cable: INTA CHILE. Co-ordinator: Dr. José Riumallo

The International Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Public Health (IFNP)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20A-201, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, USA.
Tel. (617) 253-7617. Cable: MIT CAM.
Telex: 92-1473 MIT CAM. Co-ordinator: Dr. William M. Rand

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ife
Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Tel. 2290 to 2299. Co-ordinator: Dr. J. O.
Adejuwon

Department of Nutrition and Food Science. University of Ghana (DNFS)
P.O. Box 134, Legon, Ghana. Cable: UNIVERSITY LEGON.
Co-ordinator: Dr. R. Orraca-Tetteh

Universidad del Valle (UVC)
Apartado Aereo 20353, Call, Colombia. Co-ordinator: Dr. Luis Fajardo

Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU)
Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine,
Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand.
Tel. 282-6435. Co-ordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi

University of the West Indies (UWI)
St. Augustine Campus: Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Crop Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Tel. 662-7171. Cable:
STOMATA PORT OF SPAIN. Resident Co-ordinator: Dr. Lloyd
Rankine. Mona Campus: Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Mona,
Kingston 7, Jamaica. Tel. 927-6661. Cable: UNIVERS JAMAICA.
Contact: Dr. Michael Golden

National Food Research Institute (NFRI)
2-1-2 Kannondai, Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken 300-21,
Japan. Tel. 02975-6-8011. Co-ordinator: Dr. Keiji Umeda

Netherlands Intenational Nutrition Institute (NINl)
Lawickse Allee 11, P.O. Box 88, 6700 AB, Wageningen,
Netherlands. Tel. (08370) 19040. Co-ordinator: Dr. Joseph
Hautvast

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Keppel Street (Gower Street), London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel.
01-636 8636. Co-ordinator: Dr. Philip Payne

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Tel. (967)
8801. Cable: KISTROK. Telex: KISTROK K 27380. Co-ordinator:
Dr. Tai-Wan Kwon

Institute of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Technology (IATA)
Jaime Roig 11, Valencia 10, Spain. Tel. 369-08-00. Cable: IATA
Valencia 10, Spain. Co-ordinator: Dr. Salvador Barber

Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka (INFS)
Dhaka-2, Bangladesh. Tel 500288. Cable: NUTRITION DHAKA.
Co-ordinator: Dr. Kamal Ahmad

University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. Tel. (519) 824-4120. Telex:
UOFG INAT GLPH 069-56645. Co-ordinator: Dr. H. C. Clark

University of São Paula (USP)
School of Public Health, Avenida Dr. Arnaldo, 715, São Paulo,
S.P., Brazil. Co-ordinator: Dr. RAY Laurenti

University of Nairobi (UNK)
Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kabete Campus, P.O. Box 41607, Nairobi, Kenya. Coordinator: Dr. A. A. Kielmann

Other co-operating organizations

Through INCAP:
Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación Y Tecnología Industrial (ICAITI), Guatemala City, Guatemala (Dr. Carlos Rolz)
Central American Institute of Corporation Management (INCAE), Costa Rica (Dr. John C. Ickis)

Through NCP:
University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Los Baños, Philippines
Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Manila, Philippines

Through CFTRI:
National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India (Dr. M. Mohanram)

Through IFNP:

Department of Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA (Dr. M. C. Nesheim)
Departments of Nutrition and Medical Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., USA (Dr. Gretel Pelto)
Tufts University School of Nutrition, Medford, Mass. (Dr. Stanley N. Gershoff), and Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA (Dr. Gerald T. Keusch)
Department of Communications, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., USA
Department of Anthropology, Nutrition, and Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., USA (Dr. Billie R. DeWalt)
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA (Dr. Kenneth Brown)
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA (Dr. Peter Pellett)
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., USA (Dr. Snehendu B. Kar)

Through UWI:
Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), Kingston, Jamaica (Dr. A. W. Patterson)

Through NFRI:
Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Through NINI:
International Course in Food Science and Nutrition (ICFSN), Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. M. L. J. Mertens)
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands (Dr. P. Middelburg)
Department of Tropical Nutrition, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Prof. J. Kusin)
Division for Nutrition and Food Research, TNO, Zeist, Netherlands (Prof. B. Krol)
Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC), The Hague, Netherlands (Dr. C. W. Klugkist)
Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK (Dr. David Southgate)

Through the British Council:
Tropical Development and Research Institute (TDRI), London, UK
Department of Food Science, University of Reading, UK
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK
Institute of Child Health, University of London, London, UK
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Agricultural Research Council, Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK
University of Reading, Reading, UK (Dr. Harry Nursten)

Through KAIST:
Korea University, Korea Nutrition Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Jin Soon Ju)
Korea University, Food Research Center, College of Agriculture, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Dr. Cherl-Ho Lee)

Through IATA:
Instituto de Nutrición, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicos de España, Madrid, Spain (Dr. Gregorio Varela)

Through USP:
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

Direct co-operative relationship
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., USA (Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen)

International scientific unions
International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS)

In the United Nations system, the UNU Programme on Food, Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Poverty co-operates with the appropriate units or divisions of the following organizations with which the University has memoranda of understanding: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) World Health Organization (WHO) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The University is represented on the Sub-committee on Nutrition (SCN) of the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination.

Food and nutrition research networks

Iron-deficiency anaemia

Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile, Principal investigator: Dr. Tomas Walter

Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Apartado 1827, Caracas, Venezuela. Principal investigator: Dr. Miguel Layrisse

Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU), Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi

Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI, Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Darwin Karyadi

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Carretera Roosevelt, Zona 11, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Dr. Benjamin Torún

National Research Centre, National Academy of Sciences, Cairo, Egypt. Principal investigator: Dr. Sohair Salem

National Institute of Nutrition, Cairo, Egypt. Principal investigator: Dr. Mohammed A. Hussein

National Institute of Hygiene, Yungan Hsi-lee, Chien Kuo Men-wai, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen-ting Chin

Beijing Medical College-UNICEF, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Shiu-yun Liu

Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Principal investigator: Dr. Ratko Buzina

Chronic energy deficiency

Division of Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition, Calle Vasco de Quiroga No. 15 Col. y Deleg. Tlalpan, 14000 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Héctor Bourges

Instituto de Nutritión Y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 151 38, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. Jose Riumallo

National Institute of Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, Rome, Italy. Principal investigator: Dr. Anna Ferro-Luzzi

Ethiopian Nutrition Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Principal investiagor: Dr. Teshome Demeke

Universidad del Valle, Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicine, Apartado Aereo 2188, Call, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Julio C. Reina

Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Komplek GIZI, Jalan Semboja, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Darwin Karyadi

Nutrition Research Centre, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore 560 034, India. Principal investigator: Dr. Prakash S. Shetty

Institute of Health, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 10 Tian Tan Xili, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Chen Xue-cun

University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Sally McGregor

Nutrition and primary health care

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) (for Central America), P.O. Box 1188, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Lic. Elena Hurtado

Instituto de Nutrición Y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 15138, Santiago 11, Chile. Principal investigator: Dr. Marla de la Luz Alvarez

Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. Professors Maria E. Romero and Adela Morales de Look

UNICEF-Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Principal investigator: Dr. Maria D. Alvarez

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Management Science. P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea. Principal investigator: Dr. Kong-Kyun Ro

Baluchistan Integrated Programme Area Directorate, Baluchistan, Pakistan. Co-investigators: Farhat Sultana and Pamela Hunte

University of Lubumbashi, Zaire (Shaba Province). Principal investigator: Ngokwey Ndolamb

Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, c/o Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama Vl Road, Bangkok 4, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Yongyout Kachonpadunkitti

Save the Children Fund, CPO Box 992, Kathmandu, Nepal. Principal investigator: Dr. Vijaya L. Shrestha

University of Ife, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Simi Afonja

University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, Nairobi, Kenya. Principal investigator: Dr. David 0. Nyamwaya

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI), P.O. Box 140, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Principal investigator: Dr. Renee Dankerlin

Centre for Social Research and Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Box 278, Zomba, Malawi. Principal investigator: Dr. Christine Lamba

Society for Economic and Social Studies, B-1, 2nd Floor LSC, J Block, Saket, New Delhi 110 017, India. Principal investigator: Dr. D. Raghunandan

Agricultural and food policy

Ministry of Finance and Planning, Sri Lanka. Principal investigator: Dr. Patricia Aiailima

Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India. Principal investigator: Dr. B. Bowonder

Central Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Principal investigator; Dr. Gamini Abeyesekere

Dr. Tomas Uribe-Mosquera, 24 Peabody Terrace, Apt. 1003, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Centro de Ecodesarrollo, a.c., Apdo. postal 11-440, Col. Hipodromo, C P. 06100, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Lic. Blanca Suarez

Ministry of Plan implementation, Sri Lanka. Principal investigator: Dr. Neville Edirisinghe

Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Delegación Tlalpan, Mexico 14000, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Adolfo Chavez

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Promoción Agropecuaria (INIPA)/Programa Nacional de Sistemas Agropecuarios Andinos (PNSAA), Guzman Blanco 306, Lima 13, Peru. Principal investigator: Mr. Jorge Recharte

International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS)

Secretariat:
Bldg. 20A-226, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Dr. William Rand, Executive Secretary
Dr. John Klensin, Information Systems Specialist

Executive Committee: Dr. Vernon Young, Chairman; Dr. Ricardo Bressani; Dr. Alex Campbell

Committee on Users and Needs: Dr. Gaurth Hansen, Chairman
Committee on Data Quality: Dr. David Southgate, Chairman
Committee on Terminology and Nomenclature: Dr. Stewart Truswell, Chairman
Committee on Information System: Dr. John Klensin, Chairman

Regional liaison groups

ASIAFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

EUROFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Clive West, Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands

LATINFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Ricardo Bressani, Institute of Nutrition of Central
America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala

MEDIFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Flaminio Fidanza, Instituto di Scienza dell'Alimentazione, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

NOAFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Alex Campbell, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NORDICFOODS
Co-ordinator: Dr. Ake Bruce, Swedish National Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden

OCEANIAFOODS (for the Oceania region), AFRICAFOODS (for Africa south of the Sahara), and MENAFOODS (for the Middle East and North Africa) are being organized.

Biotechnology research networks

Brucellosis

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Veterinarias, 1712 Castelar, Pcia. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Principal investigator: Dr. Eduardo I. Palma

Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile. Principal investigators: Dr. Ximena Rojas, Dr. Hugo Folch

Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA), Laboratorio de Investigaciones Medicas Veterinarias (LIMV), Aptdo. Aéreo 29743, Bogotá, Colombia. Principal investigators: Dr. Olga C. Marino J., Dr. Isaac Gallego M.

Empresa Colombiana de Productos Veterinarios S.A. (VECOL), Apartado Aéreo 7476, Bogotá, Colombia. Principal investigator: Dr. Guillermo Gómez Jurado

Instituto Nacional de Higiene Y Medicina Tropical "Leopoldo Izquieta Perez,'' Av. de las Americas, Casilla 5584, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Principal investigator: Dr. Angel Zambrano

Instituto Nacional de Salud, Laboratorio Referencial de Salud Publica, Cápac Yupanqui 1400, Apartado 451, Lima, Peru. Principal investigators: Dr. Maria Arrelucé de Santur, Dr. Alfredo Guillen Oneeglio

Instituto de Investigaciones Veterinarias, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Fondo Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Av. Las Delicias, Apartado 70, Maracay, Venezuela. Principal investigator: Dr. Verónica R. Lord

Research Institute for Animal Disease (RIAD), Jalan R. E. Martadinata 32, P.O. Box 52, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Adin Priadi

Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales, S.S.A. Prol. Carpio 470, C.P. 11 340, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Principal investigator: Dr. Ahidé López

Co-operating scientists

Drs. Barry Stemshorn (Director), C.E. Rigby, M.M. Garcia, J. Cherwonogrodzky, K. Nielsen, P. Wright, Animal Diseases Research Institute, 801 Fallowfield Rd., P.O. Box 11300, Station H. Nepean, Ontario K2H 8P9, Canada
Dr. A. G. Winter, Cornell University, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY 15843, USA
Dr. Joseph B. Hendricks, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, P.O. Box 218, Elgin, SC 29045, USA
Dr. D. T. Berman, University of Wisconsin, Department of Veterinary Science, 1655 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Dr. Godfrey Alton, New Friars, Mickley, Ripon HG4 3JE, UK
Dr. Philip Plackett, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Animal Health Research Laboratory, Private Bag No. 1, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Dr. J. F. Frank, Project Co-ordinator, J. F. Frank Associates Ltd. P.O. Box 291, Manotick, Ontario KOA 2N0, Canada

Nitrogen fixation

Institute of Fundamental Studies, 380/72, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka. Principal investigator: Dr. S. A. Kulasooriya

Universiti Malaya, Department of Botany Kuala Lumpur 22-11, Malaysia. Principal investigator: Prof. T. C. Shen

Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Office of Rural Development, Suweon 170, Republic of Korea. Principal investigator: Dr. Sang Kyu Lee

Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, 141 Hsi Chih Men Wai Ta Chie, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Jia-ge Li

Chulalongkorn University, Phaya Thai Road, Bangkok 10500, Thailand. Principal investigator: Dr. Jariya Boonjawat

University of Hanoi, Department of Genetics, Hanoi, Viet Nam. Principal investigator: Dr. Duong Duc Tien

National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (BIOTECH) and Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna 3720, Philippines. Principal investigator: Dr. Milagrosa R. Martinez

University of Ife, Faculty of Agriculture, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. Adewale Adebayo

Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA), Universidade de São Paulo, 13400 Piracicaba, C.P. 96, São Paulo, Brazil. Principal investigator: Dr. Siu Mui Tsai Saito

National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1-111, Mishima, Shizuoka-ken 411, Japan. Principal investigator: Dr. Y. Hirota

Co-operating scientists

Dr. J. Balandreau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Pédologie Biologique, 17, rue Notre Dame des Pauvres, B.P. 5 - 54501 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France
Dr. I. Watanabe, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philippines
Dr. David Eskew, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramerstrasse 5, P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Dr. James R. Milam, University of Florida, Department of MicrobiologY and Cell Science, 1059 McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Dr. V. T. Emtsev, Timirjazev Agricultural Academy, Department of Microbiology, Timirjazevskaja, 50, corp. 9, 127550, Moscow, USSR
Dr. Peter Dart, Project Co-ordinator, Australian National University, Research School of Biological Sciences, P.O. Box 475, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

Fermented food

Food from wood

Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación y Tecnología Industrial (ICAITI), Avenida La Reforma 4-47, Zona 10, Guatemala. Principal investigator: Dr. Jose Francisco Calzada

Co-operating scientists

Dr. S. T. Chang, Department of Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT, Hong Kong

Dr. Robert P. Tengerdy, Department of Microbiology and Environmental Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

Prof. K. H. Domsch, Director, Institut für Bodenbiologie, Bundes-forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Braunschweig 3300, Bundesallee 50, Federal Republic of Germany

Fermented fish

Korea University, Department of Food Technology, 1 Anam-dong, Sungbuk-ku, Seoul 132, Republic of Korea. Project co-ordinator: Dr. Cherl-Ho Lee

Kasetsart University, Department of Product Development, Bangkok, Thailand 10900. Principal investigator: Dr. Narudom Boon-Long

National Aquatic Resources Agency, Crow Island, Mattakkuliya, Colombo 15, Sri Lanka. Principal investigator: Dr. S. K. Onil Perera

Scientific Research Institute of Food and Fermentation Industry, Ministry of Light Industry, Dong Yi Jie, San Li Tun, Beijing, China. Principal investigator: Dr. Yin Zong Lun

Development Centre for Food Technology, 532, Merchant St., Rangoon, Burma. Principal investigator: Dr. Myo Thant Tyn

Solid-state fermentation

Nutrition Research and Development Centre, Ministry of Health, Komplek GIZI, Jalan Dr. Sumeru, Bogor, Indonesia. Contact: Dr. Darwin Karyadi, Director

Food Technology Development Center (FTDC), Bogor Agricultural University, Kampus IPB Darmaga, P.O. Box 61, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Budiatman Satiawiharja

Department of Food Technology and Human Nutrition, Bogor Agricultural University, IPB Kampus Darmaga, P.O. Box 122, Bogor, Indonesia. Principal investigator: Dr. Deddy Muchtadi

Co-operating scientists

Dr. Keith H. Steinkraus, Cornell University, Institute of Food Science, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Dr. Kiyoaki Kato, National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken 305, Japan
Dr. Robert Djurtoft, Technical University of Denmark, Building 224, Lyngby, OK 2800, Denmark
Dr. Ko Swan Djien, Department of Food Science, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, Netherlands

Alcohol and acid fermentations

University of Ibadan, Department of Botany, Ibadan, Nigeria. Principal investigator: Dr. S. A. Odunfa

Université Marien Ngouabi, Faculté des Sciences, B.P. 3029, Brazzaville, Congo. Principal investigator: Prof. Delphin Louembe

Université National du Benin, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, B.P. 526, Cotonou, Benin. Principal investigator: Dr. Nago Coffi Mathurin

Co-operating scientists

Dr. M. J. R. Nout, Agricultural University "Biotechnion," De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, Netherlands
Dr. R. D. Cooke, Tropical Development and Research Institute, 5662 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LU, UK


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