Africa's border forests have been largely destroyed by loggers and farmers clearing the land for agriculture. In western Asia, almost 90 percent of the original rainforest has disappeared and what remains is heavily fragmented and destroyed. Nearly 6.8 million square kilometers of Africa were initially forested, Africa's forests cover 250 million hectares and constitute more than 17 percent. Trees are felled for use or sale for fuel or timber, while cleared land is used for livestock. The loss of forest cover is a particular problem in Ghana, where NTFPs provide substance and income through forest cover, defined as the conversion of forest land to other uses or permanent use, it is generally recognized that outside urban areas. Forest products are central to socio-economic development in Ghana, but deforestation remains high. In Ghana, deforestation is the result of a number of economic activities. legal and illegal logging, tree clearing to increase arable land, firewood extraction and mining. Most of Africa's forests cover 520 million hectares and constitute more than 17 percent of the world's forests, and almost 6.8 million square kilometers of Africa were originally forested. African forests include the Sehel tropical dry forests, the Eastern and Southern African tropical rainforests of West and Central Africa. Between 1990 and 1995, the annual rate of total deforestation in Africa was about 0.7 percent. Over the past 20 years, approximately 300 million hectares of mainly tropical forests have been covered by forest problems. In Africa, they cut down 28 trees and planted only one to develop agriculture. All over the world, forests are exploited for wood and paper. pulp and cleared to make monocultures, this does not threaten our middle of paper ......003, this was the biggest problem in Africa. The National Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that 137,000 km² of rainforest were occupied each year in the 1980s and 1990s. The global deforestation rate is approximately 13 million hectares, most of which occur in developing countries. Improving food security, poverty reduction and sustainable forest management in Ghana through non-timber forest products agriculture: Sefwi Wiawso district case study at: www.grin.com/de/preview/. html. West Africa had approximately 193,000 square miles of agricultural land. The coastal rainforest, the rainforests of West Asia, mainly lowland formations easily accessible from the coast, have been largely depleted by commercial exploitation, mainly logging and cultivation for agricultural purposes. according to FAO 1997, only 22.8 percent of West Africa's rainforests remain, much of which is degraded..