KEY MESSAGES:

• Although employment within agrifood value chains represents a key mechanism for structural transformation and economic development, available data do not allow for consistent gender or age disaggregation of employment within intermediary segments of agrifood value chains.
• We observe large gender gaps in both those who operate intermediary firms within agrifood value chains and those who are employed by these firms.
• The vast majority of those who operate intermediary agrifood value chain firms are not part of the youth population (that is, 15–24 years old).
• If agrifood value chains are going to play a meaningful role in closing gender and age gaps in employment, systematic barriers that constrain women’s economic empowerment, youth employment, and the creation of “good” jobs need to be addressed.