Professor Steven Belmain training colleagues in Madagascar on plague surveillance and rodent management.

  Rodents are not only a problem to crops in the field but can cause serious damage and contamination to harvested grains stored on farm, such as this rice contaminated with rodent faeces.

In many parts of the world, rodent population outbreaks can lead to 100% crop loss and regional famine. In Africa, this phenomenon is known to occur across the Sahel and along the eastern side of th...

Although rodenticides are the most common form of rodent management, inappropriate use of poisons has adverse affects on wildlife and many of the poisons used to kill rodents can lead to accide...

Mastomys natalensis is the most widespread rodent pest in Africa and is found in all sub-Saharan African countries. When conditions are right in East Africa this rodent can undergo rapid population ...