The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya
The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya
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在肯尼亚多样化家禽价值链中实施抗生素管理的挑战
DOI:
10.1007/s10460-023-10518-3
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Hughes A
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Hughes A
This paper investigates the challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship – reducing and optimizing the use of antibiotics – in agricultural settings of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) as a strategic part of addressing the global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It does so through analysis of the rapidly transforming yet diverse Kenyan poultry sector, characterized by growing commercial operations alongside traditional smallholder farming. Our research involves interviews with farmers, processors, policymakers, and agro-veterinary stores in these settings. We blend Chandler’s (, p. 8) notion of “antibiotics as infrastructure” with value chain frameworks to understand how the structural role of antibiotics in agriculture plays out through contrasting value chains, with different implications for stewardship. Weak regulation and intense market-based pressures are shown to drive widespread antibiotic use in poultry value chains involving small- and medium-sized farms supplying open markets. Antibiotic stewardship through adherence to agricultural and food safety standards is more evident, though unevenly observed, in value chains involving large commercial farms and processors supplying corporate buyers. Our findings reveal the complex structural roles of antibiotics in maintaining producer livelihoods in an intensely competitive and heterogeneous Kenyan poultry sector. This highlights challenges with applying global AMR policy to transforming food systems in LMICs without appropriate translation. We argue that attempts to reduce and optimize the use of antibiotics in agriculture must be informed by nuanced understandings of the roles of antibiotics in food systems in specific places including where very different scales and models of farming and value chain co-exist.
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影响因子:
3.9
作者:
T. Vetter;Marianne Nylandsted Larsen;Thilde Bech Bruun
通讯作者:
Thilde Bech Bruun
影响因子:
4
作者:
Chandler, Clare I. R.
通讯作者:
Chandler, Clare I. R.
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2012
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Iddo Tavory
DOI:
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发表时间:
2019
期刊:
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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作者:
Y. Z. Njisane;F. E. Mukumbo;V. Muchenje
通讯作者:
V. Muchenje
DOI:
10.1177/0263276420981606
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
Theory, Culture & Society
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作者:
S. Hinchliffe
通讯作者:
S. Hinchliffe