FMD outbreak: How much is Namibia’s beef industry really losing?

Namibia’s FMD crisis is testing more than its veterinary controls. It is exposing the cost of depending on uninterrupted export access without sufficient financial buffers across the agricultural value chain. Elvis Mboya Namibia’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak could cost the livestock industry an estimated N$2.4 billion over six months, exposing the financial vulnerability of an […]