Within the activities undertaken by IIASA's Food and Agriculture Program one part has been directed to assessing the role which new technologies for protein production could play in the future in covering the global demand.
This report contains the main papers submitted to the Task Force Meeting on "New Technologies for the Utilization of Biologically Based Raw Materials for Feed and Food Production" held at Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR in August 1981. The meeting was the second in a series of meetings dealing with the problems of new technologies for the utilization of agricultural wastes.
The main topics for discussion at the Tbilisi meeting were defined during the first meeting held at IIASA in September 1980. Furthermore the network of collaborating institutions and teams, established after this first meeting, produced interesting background material in the form of answers to the questionnaires distributed by IIASA. (See Table 6 of this report) .
The meeting was seen as a further step towards the assessment of the new technologies on protein production and the basis for future collaboration was outlined and the proposal for holding the next meeting was submitted
