FMD outbreak threatens rural jobs, export earnings… EAN calls for financial relief and urgent trade negotiations

Namibia’s escalating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) crisis threatens to derail the lucrative livestock sector’s anticipated economic recovery, undermine thousands of rural livelihoods and inflict prolonged financial damage on farmers and businesses already battling rising operating costs and constrained cash flows. This deplorable state of affairs festers as the Economic Association of Namibia (EAN) warns that... The post FMD outbreak threatens rural jobs, export earnings… EAN calls for financial