Uruguay Additional Financing Foot & Mouth Disease Emergency Recovery Loan - Ln. 7421-0 UY

The objectives of the scaling-up of additional financing activities are in line with the original project development objectives (see above), while the inclusion of activities encompassing non-FMD diseases required the addition of a new objective: to prevent the introduction of other transboundary animal diseases of major economic importance. The formally revised project objectives are: (a) to contain and mitigate the impact of the outbreak of FMD in the Borrower#s territory through: (i) vaccination of cattle; (ii) strengthening of the monitoring and surveillance capacity of the Borrower to prevent future outbreaks from spreading beyond the directly affected area; and (iii) identification of alternative markets for the beef produced in the Borrower#s territory in the short-run and restoring the Borrower#s presence in the premium beef market in the long-run; and (b) to prevent the introduction of other trans-boundary animal diseases of large economic importance.