Planned Deforestation

Planned deforestation can encompass a wide variety of activities such as: national resettlement programs, conversion of forestland to industrial-scale production of commodities such as soybeans, oil palm; urban, rural, and infrastructure development. This could include decisions by individual land owners or community groups, whose land is legally zoned for agriculture, to convert their forest(s) to crop production or biofuel plantations. These planned deforestation activities would be outlined in land planning or management documents, and could therefore be readily verified under the VCS. See unplanned Deforestation.