POTATOES AFRICA

Contributor

Grace Nakato

Correspondent

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

Beyond the plate: what potato farming has to do with rural mental health

Kenya's potato industry has the seed and the tech. What it's short on is people.

Kenya's potato advisors are learning bookkeeping now, not just blight control

Iron-biofortified potatoes shown against figures on anaemia and biofortification in sub-Saharan Africa.

Iron-biofortified potatoes could help tackle anaemia in Africa's highlands

Pooja Pandey, CIP potato scientist based in Haryana, India, and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker.

Pooja Pandey: India's apical-cutting playbook, and its lessons for African seed systems

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