The Svalbard Seed Vault: a tool for Africa’s food future?

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic holds more than one million seeds as a safeguard for the world’s food supply. This year, it is receiving the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. In an interview with Africanews’ Ronald Kato, NordGen director general Lene Krøl Andersen says the vault preserves biodiversity and resilient genes that future crops may need as climate change puts natural biodiversity under pressure.