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.

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Research

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

05 Aug 2026
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Policy

Kenya has the policy momentum for WPC 2026. The seed and market gaps haven't gone anywhere

03 Aug 2026
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Policy

Potato earns a seat at Kenya's $-billion AgriConnect table — recognition, not yet funding

01 Aug 2026
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Policy

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

30 Jul 2026
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Trade & markets

Kenya bets on a single national cooperative to fix smallholder bargaining power — details are still thin

28 Jul 2026
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Production

Why better seed, not more land, may be the fastest way to lift Kenya's potato yields

26 Jul 2026
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Policy

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

24 Jul 2026
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Seed systems

Kenya tries to put every apical-cuttings trainer on the same page

22 Jul 2026
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Seed systems

Kenya bets on Dutch seed and a stronger KEPHIS to build a domestic multiplication chain

18 Jul 2026
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Policy

Kenya's potato council maps a five-point plan to fix its chaotic market — and pay for itself

14 Jul 2026
Seed potatoes prepared for distribution to smallholder farmers in Uganda.
Seed systems

Dieleman Potatoes takes aim at Uganda's seed-potato gap

20 Jun 2026
Iron-biofortified potatoes shown against figures on anaemia and biofortification in sub-Saharan Africa.
Research

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

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

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

12 Jun 2026
Soundararadjane S, CEO of HyFarm (HyFun Foods) and a World Potato Congress 2026 speaker from India.
Processing

Soundararadjane S: India's potato-processing story and its lessons for Africa

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