POTATOES AFRICA

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Grace Nakato

Correspondent

Covers post-harvest handling, cold chain and smallholder value chains across the region.

Researcher inspecting potato plants in a disease-screening trial

Climate & disease

The 30-year hunt for a blight-proof potato reaches Africa's fields

Highland potato farmer inspecting seed tubers in Ethiopia

Fifty years of breeding, and Ethiopia's potato yields still trail. The bottleneck is seed.

Potato cooperative members sorting seed tubers in northern Rwanda

Rwanda approves 11 new potato varieties — its first refresh in 30 years