POTATOES AFRICA
Region

East Africa

Coverage across East Africa

Reporting on the potato value chain across Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda. Country hubs open as coverage in each market deepens.

Seed potatoes stored on ventilated shelving in a diffused-light store at Nakuru Tubers in Nakuru County, Kenya.
Seed systems

Nakuru Tubers bets on certified seed to break Kenya's Shangi dependence

17 Jun 2026
Christella Uwase, founder of Bountiful Farmers Ltd and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker from Rwanda.
Seed systems

Christella Uwase: the young Rwandan seed multiplier taking inclusivity to WPC 2026

12 Jun 2026
Dr Dinah Borus, Nairobi-based seed-potato scientist and World Potato Congress 2026 speaker.
Seed systems

Dinah Borus: the seed scientist bringing Kenya's apical cuttings to WPC 2026

12 Jun 2026
Seed potatoes sorted into trays for grading
Seed systems

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

10 Jun 2026
Disease-free potato mini-tubers raised in a controlled-environment seed system
Seed systems

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

09 Jun 2026
Researcher inspecting potato plants in a disease-screening trial
Climate & disease

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

08 Jun 2026
A conference hall being set up for an international potato industry gathering.
Trade & markets

Inside the World Potato Congress 2026: programme, speakers and field days

08 Jun 2026
Sacks of potatoes aggregated at a rural collection point
Trade & markets

The missing middle: why aggregation decides who profits from potatoes

07 Jun 2026
Solar-powered cold storage unit serving smallholder farmers
Production

Building a cold chain that smallholders can actually use

07 Jun 2026
Highland potato farmer inspecting seed tubers in Ethiopia
Seed systems

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

07 Jun 2026
Bagged certified seed potatoes with inspection labels
Policy

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

07 Jun 2026
Frozen french fries moving along a processing line
Processing

The fry frontier: why global processors are circling African potatoes

06 Jun 2026
Certified seed potatoes being graded and bagged at a Kenyan farm operation.
Seed systems

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

03 Jun 2026
Smallholder potato harvest in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
Production

In Tanzania's Southern Highlands, better seed is tripling potato yields

02 Jun 2026
Potato cooperative members sorting seed tubers in northern Rwanda
Seed systems

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

01 Jun 2026
Terraced potato gardens in the Kigezi highlands of southwestern Uganda
Production

Uganda's potato future runs through Kigezi's seed growers

31 May 2026
Potato farmland in Kenya's Rift Valley, the region hosting the 2026 World Potato Congress.
Trade & markets

Kenya to host the first World Potato Congress in Sub-Saharan Africa

30 May 2026