Central America: Fungal Fermentation of Coffee Waste

摘要

The case history has been written to assist development planners, personnel of industrial research institutes, and USAID mission personnel in understanding the role that IRIs can and do play in the application of technology to development. It describes the fungal fermentation of a coffee waste program under way in Guatemala and El Salvador that will result in useful protein byproducts. The cultivation of fungi on the coffee pulp juice represents a useful technological advance for less developed countries--it will help the control of some of the pollution involved with coffee production.