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Afforestation
1. Conversion of
bare land into forest land by planting of forest trees.
2. The planting of a forest crop on land that has not previously,
or not recently, carried a forest crop.
World Agroforestry
Centre, 1997
Artificial establishment of forest on lands which
previously did not carry forest with a living canopy.
FAO, 1998
Establishment of ground cover of trees, shrubs
and grasses on a barren land where no forest existed until fifty
years ago or earlier
Siyag, P.R., 1998
The conversion from other land uses into forest,
or the increase of the canopy cover to above the 10% threshold.
FAO, 2000
Establishment of forest plantations on land that,
until then, was not classified as forest. Implies a transformation
from non-forest to forest.
FAO, 2001
The direct human-induced conversion of land that
has not been forested for a period of at least 50 years to forested
land through planting, seeding and/or the human-induced promotion
of natural seed sources.
UNFCCC, 2001
The establishment of a planted forest on non-forested land
ITTO, 2002
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