Researchers from the universities of Maryland and Texas in the United States of America questioned the rapid expansion of cultivated land in Africa in a recent study utilizing satellite data from NASA's Landsat program. Africa has increased its agricultural area by more than a third during the last two decades (2000-2019), accounting for 52 percent of the worldwide growth, or 102 million hectares. Angola, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mozambique, and Zambia had exceptionally fast growth. This fast growth of arable land is mostly harming forests and natural ecosystems. For example, in 60 years, the Ivory Coast has lost 90 percent of its forest. And the phenomena shows no signs of abating. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the continent would need around 120 million hectares of additional arable land by 2050. This must be supplemented by pasture growth in response to rising demand for dairy and meat products.