Women in smallholder rural households play a central role in agriculture, and they are instrumental in upgrading agricultural value chains. In the African context, patterns of gender inequalities in division of labour, access and control of resources, and spending of household income make it difficult for women to participate in and benefit from the development of agricultural value chains (USAID, 2009; FAO, 2018). Evidence suggests that these inequalities are persistent and characterized by limited understanding of women’s access to and control of benefits that accrue from participating in value chains (FAO, 2018). The limited understanding greatly explains why upgrading interventions continuously fail to effectively address specific needs of women, and why women continue to be marginalized and excluded from participation, especially in the upgrading of agricultural value chains (Coles & Mitchell, 2011; Kasente, 2012; Campos et al., 2016). Quisumbing et al. (2015) argue that it’s because upon upgrading, men own agricultural assets and they capture the majority of benefits, compared to women, unless a deliberate effort is made to change the distribution of benefits which requires proper understanding of the division of labour, access and control of resources and benefits, and factors determining upgrading among women and men involved in the value chains.