afforestation

It's actually re-afforestation, where the land is permanently forested.

Sorry, the abbreviation stands for Automatic Afforestation Device (Приспособление лесопосадочное автоматическое), designed at Institute of Forest in Homel.

There is also 'mild' re-afforestation, where you simply increase the equilibrium amount of stored biomass in a landscape.

It's also hard to balance afforestation without causing scarcity of water and displacement of native forest habitats.

More to your implied point, deforestation can happen one place and afforestation/reforestation another at the same time.

Ironically, afforestation is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to install air purifiers at scale.

One of the most efficient Soviet afforestation technology for pine forests is - wait until the good seed year comes in ripe forest.

The usual counter is that even then, afforestation is better than grazing lands.

The most costly operation in afforestation by planting is removing stumps.

We actually can affect development patterns, deforestation, and afforestation through democracy.

Because renewable energy can ensure energy security, and afforestation to control desertification can guarantee the amount of arable land, unlike the US, China lacks sufficient agricultural land.

I have often dreamed of undertaking afforestation on a truly massive scale.

I don't know what is the "right" rate of afforestation is, whether it's going too slowly or whatever, but it's not something that's completely abandoned.

The Yale article says forest scientists warn that "failed afforestation projects around the world threaten to undermine efforts to make [tree] planting a credible means of countering climate change by reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or generating carbon credits for sale to companies to offset their emissions."

Probably the two most telling phrases: “Almost all scenarios that limit warming to 1.5°C or 2°C require novel CDR.” “Virtually all current CDR (99.9% or 2 GtCO₂ per year) comes from conventional management of land, primarily via afforestation and reforestation.

Afforestation of any kind is good, but we can't forget the importance of large, contiguous forest ecosystems too.

Afforestation, green houses, swales, center pivot irrigation and no till agriculture are highly effective methods that conserve water or let it accumulate in the local area.