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This post is published to commemorate the World Environment Day 2020. By Abubakar Ali Gumel The theme for this years world environment day is " BIODIVERSITY "  so I sort to write on the topic and seeing desertification as one of the greatest environmental threat faced in  northern Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Lets talk about desertification first, what is desertification?, How does is come about? . Desertification  or desert encroachment as its also known  according to NASA is land degradation in typically dry areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities. This is the most simple  definition of desertification. The primary factor leading desertification is deforestation. Deforestation is the indiscriminate cutting down of trees. Desertification is a very big threat to environmental sustainability in so many places around the globe. Huge amount of forest and vegetation cover are been lost to  desert encroachment around the world