Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility
Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility
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DOI：
10.1177/0308518x211015255
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发表时间：
2021-05-07
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Hocknell, Suzanne
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作者：
Hughes, Alex;Roe, Emma;Hocknell, Suzanne
本文提出了一个批判的供应链反应，以一个特定的全球邪恶的问题-抗菌素耐药性（AMR）。它评估了对AMR（和耐药感染）作为食品系统挑战的理解，并批判性地探讨了如何制定和实施解决这一问题的责任。我们将重点放在AMR策略应用于英国零售商的国内家禽和猪肉供应链上。根据2016年奥尼尔报告《全球应对耐药感染》，该报告及时分析了企业对抗生素耐药性的参与情况，该报告将连锁超市、加工商和监管机构定位为关键责任。研究包括对零售商、行业机构、政策制定者、农民、加工商、顾问和活动家的采访。我们将评估应对食品系统中抗生素耐药性的战略如何侧重于抗菌药物管理，特别是减少国内食品生产中抗生素使用的目标。多极治理的全球价值链概念，其影响力来自供应链内外的多个节点，与超越人类的组合视角相结合，以捕捉目标的执行情况。这种概念融合掌握了供应链的责任和影响如何通过分布式的利益相关者群体和AMR挑战的生态复杂性来发挥作用。论文依次论证：减少国内肉类生产中抗生素使用的目标如何代表一个特定的和狭义的战略重点；这些目标是如何通过英国供应链中的分布式机构实现的；以及将抗菌素耐药性作为一个棘手问题来解决的目标在地理和生物方面的局限性。
This paper presents a critique of supply chain responses to a particular global wicked problem - antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It evaluates the understanding of AMR (and drug-resistant infections) as a food system challenge and critically explores how responsibility for addressing it is framed and implemented. We place the spotlight on the AMR strategies applied in UK retailers' domestic poultry and pork supply chains. This provides a timely analysis of corporate engagement with AMR in light of the 2016 O'Neill report on Tackling Drug Resistant Infections Globally, which positioned supermarket chains, processors, and regulators as holding key responsibilities. Research included interviews with retailers, industry bodies, policy makers, farmers, processors, consultants and campaigners. We evaluate how strategy for tackling AMR in the food system is focused on antimicrobial stewardship, particularly targets for reducing antibiotic use in domestic food production. The global value chain notion of multipolar governance, where influence derives from multiple nodes both inside and outside the supply chain, is blended with more-than-human assemblage perspectives to capture the implementation of targets. This conceptual fusion grasps how supply chain responsibility and influence works through both a distributed group of stakeholders and the ecological complexity of the AMR challenge. The paper demonstrates in turn: how the targets for reducing antibiotic use in domestic meat production represent a particular and narrowly defined strategic focus; how those targets have been met through distributed agency in the UK supply chain; and the geographical and biological limitations of the targets in tackling AMR as a wicked problem.