The integration of male and female smallholders in high-end value chains (e.g. those for tree crops like cocoa, oil palm, avocado, and mango), has been promoted throughout the global South as a strategy for poverty alleviation, economic growth, employment generation, gender equality, and improved wellbeing. More critical literature, however, questions the inclusiveness of farmers’ value chain engagement. Despite rapid mainstreaming of inclusiveness in policy discourse, remarkably little literature sheds light on the operationalization of the concept. This paper addresses this gap. Based on a comprehensive review of three bodies of literature with the prefix ‘inclusive’ (inclusive business, inclusive value chain, and inclusive development) it unravels economic, social, relational and environmental dimensions as a basis for analysing and enhancing the inclusiveness of smallholders’ value chain engagement.

在南部整个全球范围内，促进了将男性和女性小农户纳入高端价值链（例如可可，油棕，鳄梨和芒果等树木作物的小农户）的整合，以此作为减轻贫困，经济增长，创造就业机会的战略，性别平等和改善的幸福感。但是，更多批判性文献质疑农民参与价值链的包容性。尽管包容性在政策讨论中迅速成为主流，但很少有文献为该概念的可操作性提供启示。本文解决了这一差距。基于对以“包容”为前缀的三个文献体系（包容性业务，包容性价值链和包容性发展）的全面回顾，它揭示了经济，社会，