Afforestation
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"Planting of new forests on lands which, historically, have not contained forests." http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_sr/?src=/climate/ipcc/land_use/047.htm. Establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest. http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap862e/ap862e00.pdf