NAMIBIA CONNECTS | PARTIAL LIFTING OF LIVESTOCK MOVEMENT BAN SPARKS BIOSECURITY DEBATE - nbc

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform's sudden partial lifting of the nationwide livestock movement standstill has sparked intense debate over the country's immediate biosecurity resilience. With Namibia's vital N$3 billion international meat export market hanging in the balance following a Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the southern ||Kharas Region, local agriculturalists and biosecurity experts are raising urgent questions regarding containment protocols and farm-level defenses. Dolly Tuaandi, Agricultural Scientist and Lecturer at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), shares more on the critical biosafety gaps, the complexities of small-stock surveillance, and the immediate steps required to safeguard communal and commercial farming zones from catastrophic lateral transmission.