Abstract Participatory action research across food value chains (FVC) can help stabilise the food security of subsistence farmers by implementing upgrading strategies (UPS). These strategies can be assessed ex-ante and ex-post for their potential social, ecological and economic sustainability impacts. UPS implementation, however, often entails gender-specific changes and challenges in a farmer's social life, economy and environment that either were not perceived and anticipated beforehand or are not followed up during UPS implementation. Before and during their implementation, therefore, UPS need to be entirely understood and assessed by both genders in terms of their potential social, ecological and economic sustainability impacts. This article conceptualises a systematic framework for integrating gender in sustainability impact assessments and presents gender-based assessment differences in three low-input UPS in Tanzanian FVC. We conducted ex-ante and ex-post impact assessments using nine food security criteria developed earlier by the authors following the Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment (FoPIA). Sustainability impact assessments—to a greater extent than expected—differed to various extents between the genders for a) different food security criteria, b) different sustainability dimensions (economic, social, and environmental), c) different points in time (T0, T1) of assessments, d) different implemented UPS, and e) different members within the groups of female and/or male stakeholders. The results demonstrate the substantial importance of integrating female-male segregated assessments and perceptions before and while implementing food-securing UPS. We anticipate that integrating these assessments and perceptions as regular components will lead to better gendered social learning for both scientists and stakeholders and a holistic understanding of complex local food systems.

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将性别整合与农村利益相关者的可持续性影响评估系统化：三个低投入升级战略的案例研究

摘要 跨食品价值链 (FVC) 的参与式行动研究可以通过实施升级战略 (UPS) 来帮助稳定自给农民的粮食安全。可以对这些战略的潜在社会、生态和经济可持续性影响进行事前和事后评估。然而，UPS 的实施通常会导致农民的社会生活、经济和环境中特定性别的变化和挑战，这些变化和挑战要么是事先没有意识到和预期的，要么是在 UPS 实施过程中没有跟进的。因此，在实施之前和实施过程中，两性都需要完全理解和评估 UPS 潜在的社会、生态和经济可持续性影响。本文概念化了将性别纳入可持续性影响评估的系统框架，并展示了坦桑尼亚 FVC 中三个低投入 UPS 的基于性别的评估差异。我们使用作者早些时候根据参与式影响评估框架 (FoPIA) 制定的九项食品安全标准进行了事前和事后影响评估。可持续性影响评估——在更大程度上——在性别之间存在不同程度的差异，原因是 a) 不同的粮食安全标准，b) 不同的可持续性维度（经济、社会和环境），c) 不同的时间点（T0、T1） ) 评估，d) 实施的不同 UPS，以及 e) 女性和/或男性利益相关者群体中的不同成员。结果表明，在实施食品保障 UPS 之前和期间整合男女隔离评估和认知非常重要。我们预计，将这些评估和看法整合为常规组成部分，将为科学家和利益相关者带来更好的性别社会学习，以及对复杂的当地粮食系统的全面了解。