Afforestation: Planting trees where there were none before.
Agroforestry: The integration of tree growing with crop and livestock production.
afforestation = establishing forest on a land that lacks a forest or where a forest has never existed ...
Afforestation - The process or act of changing land into forest by planting trees, seeding, etc. on land formerly used for something other than forestry. This can obviously be contrasted with deforestation. [American Forestry; v100; 23-25; 1994.
afforestation The process of allowing or encouraging the development of forests. Syn. with reforestation.
A afforestation
Definition (english only)
The establishment of a forest, stand or tree crop on an area not previously forested, or on land from which forest cover has very long been absent.
* Afforestation
The act or process of establishing a forest, especially on land not previously forested.
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Methods that can increase the potential for sequestration include afforestation, the conversion of open land to forest land, reforestation, and forest preservation.
 See also: National, Environment, Water, Ecosystem, Soil
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