Mark A. Caudell

TL;DR: This “One-Health” analysis suggests that livelihood and cultural niche factors, through their association with practices in smallholder populations, provide insight into the selection pressures that may contribute to the evolution and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance.

TL;DR: It is found that interventions to limit antimicrobial resistance should be founded upon a bottom-up understanding of antimicrobial use at the farm-level given limited input from animal health professionals and under-resourced regulatory capacities within most low- and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: It is found that livelihood factors are more strongly associated with AR prevalence than antibiotic use, demonstrating that to be effective, interventions need to accommodate different cultural practices and resource limitations.

TL;DR: When cultural and ecological conditions favour bacterial transmission, there is a high likelihood that people will harbour antimicrobial-resistant bacteria irrespective of antimicrobial use practices, and public health interventions to limit antimicrobial resistance need to be tailored to local practices that affect bacterial transmission.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare cultural ecology, productivity, failure, and resilience of enset and maize in 410 farms across four Sidama ecological zones, and find that maize yields larger harvests than enset.