We provide guidance on how to incorporate best practices around gender integration in the development of genetically improved crops by adapting a gender integration framework for conventional crop breeding to the GM product development pipeline, which places greater emphasis on the discovery and launch phases because the technical nature of the development process means fewer opportunities for farmer engagement or pivoting possibilities between these two ends of the product development spectrum. For crop innovation to be relevant to both women and men producers, during the discovery phase, developers can conduct baseline gender analysis consisting of gender-disaggregated value chain analysis, systematic learning about gender-specific crop trait preferences, and identification of varietal preferences by women and men along the value chain. The latter opportunity in the GM product development pathway for intentional gender integration is deployment, including pre-launch activities such as field demonstrations and consumer testing. We also describe ex ante and ex post gender impact assessment methods. We conclude with a number of gender integration recommendations for GM product developers: improving gender data collection and analysis to inform crop innovation efforts, investing in staffing and training of scientific teams to enhance gender expertise, and increasing accountability of product development teams with gender-intentional monitoring and evaluation systems.

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农业创新的性别融合：对转基因作物产品开发管道的影响。


我们通过将传统作物育种的性别整合框架调整到转基因产品开发流程中，就如何将性别整合的最佳实践纳入转基因作物的开发提供指导，转基因产品开发流程更加强调发现和启动阶段，因为开发过程的技术性质意味着农民参与的机会较少或在产品开发光谱的两端之间转换可能性。 为了使作物创新与女性和男性生产者都相关，在发现阶段，开发人员可以进行基线性别分析，包括按性别分类的价值链分析、系统地了解特定性别的作物性状偏好，以及识别价值链上女性和男性的品种偏好。在转基因产品开发途径中，有意识的性别融合的后一个机会是部署，包括发布前的活动，如现场演示和消费者测试。我们还描述了事前和事后性别影响评估方法。最后，我们为转基因产品开发人员提出了一些性别整合建议：改进性别数据收集和分析，为作物创新工作提供信息，投资于科学团队的人员配备和培训，以提高性别专业知识，并通过性别意向监测和评估系统加强产品开发团队的责任感。