Can media campaign messages influence change towards ecologically based rodent management?

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 579-587

  Flor, Rica Joy B ^a   Singleton, Grant R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PEST CONTROL; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICE; RODENT; SMALLHOLDER;

ASIA;

EID: 82955169507     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10166     Document Type: Article

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