Trend AMR causing animal treatment and crop protection failures

Summary

In its short-term outlook, the report expects AMR to cause treatment and protection failures in animals and crops. As resistance grows, treatments given to animals may stop working and protecting crops from disease may become harder. The report explains that agriculture could suffer sharp yield losses from resistant fungal crop infections, lower livestock welfare and productivity, and higher costs for the treatments that still work. It adds that antifungals are few yet heavily used in both medicine and farming, creating a combined One Health challenge for respiratory medicine and food supply. Linking this to animal disease outbreaks, the report observes that resistance limits the effectiveness of standard treatments and makes infections harder to manage.