POTATOES AFRICA

Contributor

Layla Hassan

North Africa & trade correspondent

Writes on exports, trade policy and the markets shaping North African potato supply.

In Egypt, the test for Western potato varieties isn't genetics — it's local proof

Editorial ledger card showing the three harvest windows in Egypt's table-potato export calendar to the European Union.

Trade & markets

Egypt's potato corridor to Rotterdam runs on Dutch seed and a narrow calendar

Graded ware potatoes being packed for export at an Egyptian facility

Trade & markets

How Egypt turned the desert into Africa's potato export engine

Bagged certified seed potatoes with inspection labels

One seed market, many rulebooks: Africa moves to harmonise certification

Irrigated potato fields on the Algerian high plains

Algeria's potato paradox: big enough to export, volatile enough to import