POTATOES AFRICA

Contributor

Tunde Bello

West Africa correspondent

Covers production, processing and farm finance across Nigeria and West Africa.

Imported ware potatoes on sale at a West African wholesale market.

Trade & markets

Côte d'Ivoire leads the world in cocoa but imports almost all its potatoes

Sacks of freshly harvested potatoes for sale at a Nigerian market.

Trade & markets

Production costs and tight supply push Nigeria's potato prices higher

Smallholder potato plots on the Jos Plateau in Nigeria

Plateau State wants to triple potato yields. Seed is the test.

Solar-powered cold storage unit serving smallholder farmers

Building a cold chain that smallholders can actually use