“牲畜革命”已经看到,由于对肉类蛋白质的需求不断增长,非洲各地的城市周边人民的生活和生计越来越多地与猪和家禽交织在一起。这场“革命”预示着解决贫困和营养需求的潜力。然而,农业的集约化引发了人们的关注,包括抗生素滥用及其对抗菌素耐药性(AMR)的影响。这些变化反映了一个微生物政治难题,即微生物的议程,农民,公众,当局和跨国机构关系紧张。要理解这一点,需要密切关注实践,这些行为者之间的原则和潜力。人种学研究发生在城市周边地区,Wakiso,2018年5月至2021年3月在乌干达。这包括对115个中小型养猪场和家禽场进行的药物调查,在六个农场进行了18周的参与者观察,对当地畜牧业的农民和其他人进行了34次深入采访,与38名农民和7名兽医进行了四次小组讨论,和档案分析,媒体和政策文件。人们发现快速农业的大规模采用,这是一种企业家现象,乌干达人用进口的生产方法和措施饲养“异国情调”的牲畜,包括用于即时治疗的抗生素,预防感染,促进生产和保护生计。这种组合-城市周边的一种约定组合-加强了不稳定,抗生素对此形成了潜在的保护层。该论文认为,解决抗生素使用作为AMR驱动因素的问题,就是解决不稳定作为抗生素使用驱动因素的问题。减少对抗生素的依赖需要一定程度的生物安全和购买保险的规模经济,只有大规模的商业生产者才能负担得起。这项研究说明了财务风险,发展和健康——在容易受气候影响的人群中扩大蛋白质生产的创业模式,感染和市场动态。
The \'livestock revolution\' has seen the lives and livelihoods of peri-urban peoples increasingly intertwine with pigs and poultry across Africa in response to a rising demand for meat protein. This \'revolution\' heralds the potential to address both poverty and nutritional needs. However, the intensification of farming has sparked concern, including for antibiotic misuse and its consequences for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). These changes reflect a micro-biopolitical conundrum where the agendas of microbes, farmers, publics, authorities and transnational agencies are in tension. To understand this requires close attention to the practices, principles and potentials held between these actors. Ethnographic research took place in a peri-urban district, Wakiso, in Uganda between May 2018 and March 2021. This included a medicine survey at 115 small- and medium-scale pig and poultry farms, 18 weeks of participant observation at six farms, 34 in-depth interviews with farmers and others in the local livestock sector, four group discussions with 38 farmers and 7 veterinary officers, and analysis of archival, media and policy documents. Wide-scale adoption of quick farming was found, an entrepreneurial phenomenon that sees Ugandans raising \'exotic\' livestock with imported methods and measures for production, including antibiotics for immediate therapy, prevention of infections and to promote production and protection of livelihoods. This assemblage - a promissory assemblage of the peri-urban - reinforced precarity against which antibiotics formed a potential layer of protection. The paper argues that to address antibiotic use as a driver of AMR is to address precarity as a driver of antibiotic use. Reduced reliance on antibiotics required a level of biosecurity and economies of scale in purchasing insurance that appeared affordable only by larger-scale commercial producers. This study illustrates the risks - to finances, development and health - of expanding an entrepreneurial model of protein production in populations vulnerable to climate, infection and market dynamics.