Current and future research

• Enhance ecological research in rodent management.
• Utilize the ecological framework in developing management strategies.
• Provide a forum for rodent experts in the region for reviewing, developing, and conducting research on rodent management and sharing of research methods and results.

Planned activities (2002-04)
a. Ecological 
  1. Movement of rats between farming systems
  2. Developing damage assessment methods
  3. Problem definition and damage in irrigated rice

b. Sociological
  1. Evaluate use of media to extend CTBS in Bac Lieu
  2. Farmers' KAP in Vinh Phuc
  3. Assessing CTBS adoption in Indonesia
  4. Farmers' KAP at CTBS implementation sites
  5. Anthropological aspects of rat management in Indonesia
  6. Baseline survey of farmers' beliefs and practices
  7. Rat meat market
  8. Rats and health in the Philippines

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IRRI and CSIRO receive Partnering Excellence medal 
in Australia