{"id": 1016714, "name": "Forest land | 00006646 || Area | 005110 || hectares", "unit": "hectares", "createdAt": "2025-03-21T14:07:37.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-10-14T16:06:59.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1990-2022", "datasetId": 7023, "shortUnit": "ha", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "forest_land__00006646__area__005110__hectares", "catalogPath": "grapher/faostat/2025-03-17/faostat_rl/faostat_rl_flat#forest_land__00006646__area__005110__hectares", "descriptionFromProducer": "Item: Forest land\n\nDescription: Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 metres and a canopy cover of more than 10 per cent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ.Excludes land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Explanatory notes:\u2022 Forest land is determined both by the presence of trees and by the absence of other predominant land uses. The trees should be able to reach a minimum height of 5 metres in situ\u2022 Includes areas with young trees that have not yet reached but that are expected to reach a canopy cover of 10 per cent and tree height of 5 metres. It also includes areas that are temporarily unstocked owing to clear-cutting as part of a forest management practice or natural disasters, and that are expected to be regenerated within five years. Local conditions may, in exceptional cases, justify the use of a longer time frame\u2022 Includes forest roads, firebreaks and other small open areas\u2022 May include forest land in national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas, such as those of specific environmental, scientific, historical, cultural orspiritual interest\u2022 Includes windbreaks, shelter belts and corridors of trees with an area of more than 0.5 hectares and width of more than 20 metres\u2022 Includes abandoned shifting cultivation land with a regeneration of trees that have, or is expected to reach, a canopy cover of 10 per cent and tree height of 5 metres\u2022 Includes areas with mangroves in tidal zones, regardless of whether this area is classified as land area or not\u2022 Includes areas with bamboo and palms provided that land use, height and canopy cover criteria are met\u2022 Some agroforestry systems such as the taungya system, where crops are grown only during the first years of the forest 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