i land, cadillac gum, our political economy and senior lecture at the university of jaffe. now in sherlock, to now world leaders and delegates are meeting in ivory coast as big as city abidjan to find ways to protect biodiversity. the main goal is to stop for a thailand becoming desert, the you and estimates 12000000 hectares of abil land is lost every year or speak to allergies. here is nicholas hoc shortly. but 1st, his report from an affected village in senegal, sport, all region on the edge of this a hell in northern senegal is no dal. d no longer. a waste is but a village thinking in the sand, gone or the green pastures and vegetable gardens. it hasn't rained for almost 10 months. the villagers used to grow food. now they're going hungry. they're emaciated cattle. look for what's left on the sound. hope for shomberg bark comes in the shape of a cloud high above. but will it rain? i don't think so. even when it rains, it doesn't stick to the ground. it's gotten so hard. even birch dropped from the sky. it feels like the desert is moving forward, swallowing our village.