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• Situation appraisal report

• Preliminary Risk Assessment report

• Standard Operation Procedure for in-situ tests with local species

• Report on local environmental conditions, agricultural practices and pesticide use

• Decision Support System

2) Dissemination of output/results (examples of dissemination: papers + articles;
policy briefs; policy workshops; scientific conferences and workshops; website)

All outputs are downloadable from the MAMAS website (www.mamasproject.org).
Many presentations have been given at several scientific conferences (SETAC
Europe conferences in Hamburg, Germany (2003), Prague, Czech Republic (2004),
Lille, France (2005), SETAC ASE Asia Pacific meeting. Christchurch, New Zealand
(2003), SETAC World meeting, Portland, USA (2004), WAS World Conference,
Bali, Indonesia (2005). Research findings are published in an article in a major
newspaper of Sri Lanka, in reports and peer reviewed papers (see references below).
Four SOS workshops have been organized to communicate the results back to all
stakeholders. Workshop results also have been published in English and local
language.

Little, D.C., A. Yakupitiyage, K. Satapornvanit, K. Kaewpaitoon, T. Ungsethaphand,
G.K. Milwain, D.J. Baird, P.J. Van den Brink, G.J. Taylor and A.J.A. Nogueira
(2003). Managing Agrochemicals in Multi-use Aquatic Systems (MAMAS).
State-of-the-system report: Thailand. MAMAS report Series no. 1/2003. Asian
Institute of Technology and Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Van den Brink, P.J., M.M.S. Ter Horst, W.H.J. Beltman, J. Vlaming and H. Van den
Bosch (2005). PRIMET version 1.0, manual and technical description. A Decision
Support System for assessing Pesticide RIsks in the tropics to Man, Environment
and Trade. Alterra-Report 1185, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Van den Brink, P.J., N. Sureshkumar, M.A. Daam, I. Domingues, G.K. Milwain,
W.H.J. Beltman, M. Perera, P. Warnajith and K. Satapornvanit. (2003). Environ-
mental and human risks of pesticide use in Thailand and Sri Lanka. Results of a
preliminary risk assessment. Alterra-Report 789, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Satapornvanit, K., D.J. Baird, D.C. Little, G.K. Milwain, P.J. Van den Brink, W.H.J.
Beltman, A.J.A. Nogueira, M.A. Daam, I. Domingues, S.S. Kodithuwakku, M.W.P.
Perera, A. Yakupitiyage, S.N. Sureshkumar and G.J. Taylor (2004). Risks of pesti-
cide use in aquatic ecosystems adjacent to mixed vegetable and monocrop fruit
growing areas in Thailand. Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology 10: 85-95.

3) Have your results been used, and if yes by whom, where and how?
The risk assessment methodology is now also used in a SANPAD project with Rand
Afrikaans University in South Africa entitled: “Environmental and Human Risk in
Pesticide Use in Southern Africa”. The experience gathered on risk assessment has
been used in the MAPET and VEGSYS project. At the end of the project (December