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Session

Sustainable food and agriculture
Location: Auditorium L: Ingrid Simonnæs
Session Chair: Thilo K.G. Haverkamp, University of Kassel

Presentation 1

Sustainability in Livestock Farming: Structural, Financial, and Institutional Constraints

Allan Beltran¹, Saul Basurto², Luis Peña-Lévano³

1: University of Birmingham; 2: National Autonomous University of Mexico; 3: University of California, Davis

Discussant: Eva Weingärtner (University of Kassel)

This paper examines barriers impeding widespread adoption of sustainable grazing practices. Using the 2007 and 2022 Mexican Censuses of Agriculture, we construct a panel dataset of 2,454 municipalities and develop a municipality-level Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) based on individual grazing practices. This index serves as the dependent variable in a two-way fixed effects fractional panel regression model, which estimates the impact of structural, financial, informational, and institutional adoption barriers. Our results indicate that municipalities with larger grazing areas tend to engage in unsustainable practices, while land tenure regimes act as structural constraints. Access to financial support mechanisms, such as credit, subsidies, and extension services, significantly improves sustainability, whereas agricultural insurance is negatively associated with the adoption of sustainable practices. The results remain robust across different farm sizes, production systems, and alternative weighting schemes for sustainable practices in the ESI. The findings highlight the need for tailored policy interventions that address key barriers to sustainable livestock production and inform broader efforts to promote environmentally sustainable agricultural practices in developing economies.