POTATOES AFRICA

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Amara Okonkwo

East Africa correspondent

Reports on seed systems, disease and smallholder production across East Africa.

Seed potatoes stored on ventilated shelving in a diffused-light store at Nakuru Tubers in Nakuru County, Kenya.

Nakuru Tubers bets on certified seed to break Kenya's Shangi dependence

Christella Uwase, founder of Bountiful Farmers Ltd and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker from Rwanda.

Christella Uwase: the young Rwandan seed multiplier taking inclusivity to WPC 2026

Dr Dinah Borus, Nairobi-based seed-potato scientist and World Potato Congress 2026 speaker.

Dinah Borus: the seed scientist bringing Kenya's apical cuttings to WPC 2026

Disease-free potato mini-tubers raised in a controlled-environment seed system

Kenya bets on soilless seed to break its certified-seed bottleneck

Certified seed potatoes being graded and bagged at a Kenyan farm operation.

Seed to fries: the Kenyan hosts of the World Potato Congress

Smallholder potato harvest in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

In Tanzania's Southern Highlands, better seed is tripling potato yields

Terraced potato gardens in the Kigezi highlands of southwestern Uganda

Uganda's potato future runs through Kigezi's seed growers

Potato farmland in Kenya's Rift Valley, the region hosting the 2026 World Potato Congress.

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Kenya to host the first World Potato Congress in Sub-Saharan Africa