South Africa: Urgent Call for Action to Protect SA's Livestock Exports From Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Coordination key to tackling rise in livestock diseases, says WOAH

Animal diseases are appearing in places they never were before, driven by shifting climate, trade, and evolving pathogens, says WOAH’s Montserrat Arroyo

South Africa: Urgent Call for Action to Protect SA's Livestock Exports From Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Embarrassingly, we currently import all our foot-and-mouth vaccines from Botswana. Manufacturing capacity at Onderstepoort Biological Products has declined significantly due to corruption and human resource challenges.

Time to start mass vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease in SA’s livestock?

We currently import all our foot-and-mouth vaccines from Botswana. Manufacturing capacity at Onderstepoort Biological Products has declined significantly due to corruption and human resource challenges.

Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak Sends Meat Prices Soaring

With payday weekend on our doorstep, and South Africans using any excuse to light up those braai fires, many people’s budgets, combined with soaring meat prices, might mean less on the coals.   This, as meat prices have surged to a 25-month high of 6.6% year-on-year, and up by 2.2% in June 2025.   Meat prices were the biggest driver of food inflation in June, as the annual rate for food & non-alcoholic beverages […]

Meat prices push up grocery bills

By: Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist, FNB Commercial Meat was the biggest driver of food inflation after surging to a 25-month high of 6.6% y/y and monthly up by 2.2% m/m in June 2025. The disease-induced supply constraints underpinned the upswing in meat prices in the past three months. The foot and-mouth (FMD) disease outbreak […] The post Meat prices push up grocery bills appeared first on Farmers Review Africa.

South Africa held "hostage" by broken system on FMD woes - Agriculture Minister

South Africa cannot continue managing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks with outdated structures and fragmented authority, hoping a patchwork of short-term measures will deliver long-term stability, said John Steenhuisen, Minister of Agriculture.