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The Economic Costs of Withdrawing Antimicrobial Growth Promoters from the Livestock Sector

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  • Ramanan Laxminarayan

    (Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP))

  • Thomas Van Boeckel

    (Princeton University)

  • Aude Teillant

    (Princeton University)

Abstract

Antimicrobials have been used in human medicine and in livestock production for more than 60 years, improving human and animal health but also fostering the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant pathogens worldwide. This report focuses on the specific issue of the economic value of antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs) to producers and consumers. After estimating orders of magnitude of current antimicrobial consumption in livestock globally, the report investigates the potential effects of restricting AGPs on livestock production globally. The growth response to AGPs appears to be small in optimised production systems, suggesting that the economic impacts of a ban on AGPs could be limited in high-income industrialized countries but potentially higher in lower income countries with less developed hygiene and production practices. With no major changes in policy, global consumption of antimicrobials in food-producing animals is projected to rise by two-thirds by 2030, with the majority of that increase occurring in emerging economies where the demand for livestock products, especially poultry, is growing fastest.

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  • Ramanan Laxminarayan & Thomas Van Boeckel & Aude Teillant, 2015. "The Economic Costs of Withdrawing Antimicrobial Growth Promoters from the Livestock Sector," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 78, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:78-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js64kst5wvl-en
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    1. Dubois, Pierre & Gökkoca, Gökçe, 2023. "Antibiotic Demand in the Presence of Antimicrobial Resistance," CEPR Discussion Papers 18358, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Ahmed,Syud Amer & Baris,Enis & Go,Delfin Sia & Lofgren,Hans & Osorio-Rodarte,Israel & Thierfelder,Karen E. & Ahmed,Syud Amer & Baris,Enis & Go,Delfin Sia & Lofgren,Hans & Osorio-Rodarte,Israel & Thier, 2017. "Assessing the global economic and poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8133, The World Bank.
    3. Joy Igbafe & Agnes Kilonzo-Nthenge & Samuel N. Nahashon & Abdullah Ibn Mafiz & Maureen Nzomo, 2020. "Probiotics and Antimicrobial Effect of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , and Bifidobacterium longum against Common Foodborne Pathogens in Poultry," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-13, August.
    4. Ahmed, Syud Amer & Barış, Enis & Go, Delfin S. & Lofgren, Hans & Osorio-Rodarte, Israel & Thierfelder, Karen, 2018. "Assessing the global poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 148-160.
    5. Muhammad Jamal & Munazza shareef & Sanaullah Sajid, 2017. "Lincomycin and tetracycline resistance in poultry. Review," Matrix Science Pharma (MSP), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 1(1), pages 33-38, February.
    6. Małgorzata Czatzkowska & Izabela Wolak & Monika Harnisz & Ewa Korzeniewska, 2022. "Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Dissemination of ARGs in the Environment—A Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-29, October.
    7. Delmond, Anthony R. & Ahmed, Haseeb, 2021. "Optimal Antimicrobial Use under Countervailing Externalities," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 46(3), September.
    8. Cheng Zhao & Yu Wang & Ranya Mulchandani & Thomas P. Van Boeckel, 2024. "Global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in food animals using priority drugs maps," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.

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