How is antimicrobial resistance jeopardizing food security?
Antimicrobial drugs are key in the treatment of diseases, and their use is essential to protect both human and animal health. However, antimicrobials misuse in the livestock sector, aquaculture and crop production is a major concern as a risk for emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant micro-organisms.
Key facts
In 2019, 5 million human deaths were associated by bacterial antimicrobial resistance worldwide, including 1.3 million human deaths attributable to bacterial AMR (The Lancet) |
27 different antimicrobial classes used in animals |
Total global animal health market in 2011 was equivalent to USD 22 billion (OECD) |
118 countries reported quantitative data on antimicrobial use in animals between 2015 and 2017, an increase from 89 reporting in 2015 |
Publications
The FAO Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland offered to host the first in-person congress for colleagues from all Reference Centres for AMR in 2023, to [...]
This booklet has been developed in order to facilitate the dissemination of findings in addition to the One Health Priority Research Agenda for AMR (AMR-OHPRA) main document.
The guideline provides detailed guidance on establishing a farm-level AMU monitoring system: conducting a situational analysis; establishing an operational mechanism; technical preparation...
News
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global health and development challenge, threatening human and animal health and welfare, food security and nutrition, food safety, productivity, and the environment, as well as the livelihoods of farmers worldwide. FAO [...]
Geneva, 4 April 2024 – Results from an economic study confirm that the already staggering human toll of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be compounded by a catastrophic hit to the global economy unless bolder and [...]
District officials trained to detect bacterial contaminants and antimicrobial resistance in animal health laboratories 16 February 2024, Mukono –The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD), in collaboration with [...]
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