POTATOES AFRICA

Section

Seed systems

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

Seed potatoes sorted into trays for grading

The Seed Reckoning: Africa's potato seed gap, by the numbers

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

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

Highland potato farmer inspecting seed tubers in Ethiopia

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

Community seed-potato multiplication plot in highland Malawi

Malawi rebuilds its potato seed system one village at a time

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

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

Potato cooperative members sorting seed tubers in northern Rwanda

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