May 28, 2026

New Scoping Review Maps Who Influences Antibiotic Use in Livestock 

When farmers and livestock producers decide whether —and how— to use antibiotics, those decisions are rarely made alone. A newly published scoping review by researchers with the SAFE AMR Partnership reveals a complex network of actors, incentives, and information flows that shape antibiotic use in food animal production systems, with direct implications for how AMR policies and interventions should be designed.