THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF LOW-CARBON LAND USE IN AGRICULTURE

The realities of the development of industrial-economic relations and ecological demands of the society have led to changes both in awareness of the features of land resources and their characteristics, which causes the development not only of the organization of land use processes, but also of the principles and their hierarchy. The state of the agro-resource potential determines the identity of the rank of principles of restoration and preservation of agricultural soil fertility against the background of the need to ensure acceptable indicators of the profitability of agro-business activities. This is possible with the financial and economic responsibility of the land user for the level of qualitative characteristics of land resources that appear as a results of their using. Until recently, the cost of agro-resource potential was not fully taken into account in the process of production of crop production that allowed to increase profits due to the depletion of the land fertility. The solution to this problem can be done through the introduction of low-carbon land use, which contributes to increasing the capitalization of land resources through the sale of carbon acquired units. Such an approach is based on the modification of the key UNFCCC principle of the "polluter pays" to the "user compensates" proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1972. So, that means that land user should to compensate the damage to the land (to provide financing for the implementation of land protection measures). The analysis of the development of initial positions, which is the theoretical basis for the provision of low-carbon land use, is dedicated to this work.