Understanding of this fact led international community to the awareness of current changes in the atmosphere composition and, consequently, to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Aiming, generally, to reduce or stabilize energy consumption, emission reduction programs directly or indirectly affect agriculture, although they normally concern mainly industrial sector of economics. The agriculture of developed countries consumes more energy than 50-100 years, but produces higher yield per ha. The growing productivity of agricultural lands allows to increase the percentage of forest land. This led to reforestation of Russian North-West.
Reforestation is widely recognized option for mitigating the effect of greenhouse gases emission.
Extensive reforestation would require a political decision to commit large areas of agricultural lands to growing trees. This is the same as saying that deforestation is perhaps a result of some political philosophy. The agricultural production in less developed countries, based mainly on energy embedded in biomass, does not disturb the balance of atmospheric CO2 by burning fossil fuels. However, it results in rapid deforestation when population density is growing. In Europe, stabilization of forest land area was a by-product of the industrialization.