posted Aug 4, 2010, 12:00 AM by IRRC Coordination Unit
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updated Sep 7, 2014, 7:40 PM by Unknown user
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"Nature has sent the rats to our homesteads by thousands, and farmers are being eaten off the face of the earth by them." (Pdf of full article is attached below)
The STOP RATS project is a collaboration with many experts from Madagascar, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania.
The project is about rodent pests and the damage they cause in crop production, the loss and contamination of stored food after harvest and the many health problems inflicted on people and domestic animals through the transmission of rodent-borne diseases.