Editing Reforestation (section)

== Definition ==
Reforestation according to the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]] means the "conversion to forest of land that has previously contained forests but that has been converted to some other use".<ref>IPCC, 2022: [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_Annex-I.pdf Annex I: Glossary] [van Diemen, R., J.B.R. Matthews, V. Möller, J.S. Fuglestvedt, V. Masson-Delmotte, C.&nbsp;Méndez, A. Reisinger, S. Semenov (eds)]. In IPCC, 2022: [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R. van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G. Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.020</ref>{{rp|1812}}

According to [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] terminology, reforestation is defined as the re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as forest. 

''[[Afforestation]]'' on the other hand means establishing new forest on lands that were not forest before (for example, abandoned agriculture).<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.fao.org/3/I8661EN/i8661en.pdf |title=Terms and definitions – FRA 2020 |publisher=FAO |year=2018 |location=Rome |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809045851/http://www.fao.org/3/I8661EN/i8661en.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is the process of restoring and recreating areas of [[woodland]]s or [[forest]]s that may have existed long ago but were [[deforestation|deforested]] or otherwise removed at some point in the past or lacked it naturally (for example, natural [[grassland]]s).{{Cn|date=November 2024}}