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Antimicrobial Resistance or AMR is a global threat. An estimated 700,000 people die from resistant infections every year. Antimicrobial Resistance is, perhaps, an ultimate example of the importance of the One Health concept: the idea that human health, animal health [...]

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern for human and animal health. AMR causes antimicrobial treatments to be ineffective, increases human and animal mortality, and results in more severe or prolonged illnesses and production losses in [...]

Public health and sustainable food production are facing a serious global threat today: the increasing spread of Antimicrobial Resistance.

FAO plays a key role in supporting governments, producers, traders and other stakeholders to move towards the responsible use of antimicrobials in agriculture, thus helping reduce antimicrobial resistance in agricultural systems

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern to human and animal health. It also has implications for both food safety and food security and the economic wellbeing of millions of farming households.