Participation in cassava value chain processes improves household income.•Most male cassava farmers sold cassava in fresh form without adding value, while female farmers processed cassava by adding value.•Improving the cassava value chain has the potential to result in pro-poor benefits for cassava growers.•The study recommends areas of intervention with the potential to reduce gender inequalities and increase returns to the poorest, many of whom are women.•In order to exploit these markets there is a need to promote appropriate cassava processing technologies such as grating, chipping and crashing by educating farmers (especially women) on these technologies and facilitate acquisition of processing equipment.•This study revealed that women cassava farmers have positive risk attitude towards participation in the alternative cassava value chain strands for commercialization.•The benefits of women’s participation in agricultural value chains are determined by their control of productive resources and household level decisions.•Concerted effort must, therefore, be made to ensure that women have better, cheaper and reliable access to land, credit, agricultural inputs, extension information and other resources.
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