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policy brief: Towards safeguarding biodiversity and human development – policy experiences from seven developing countries

7 December 2010
This policy brief explores strategies adopted by a selected number of developing countries to combat environmental degradation and poverty. It categorises policies in these developing countries according to their relationships to biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. The EC‐funded project LUPIS performs impact assessment of these policies on sustainable development in seven countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Impact assessment tools are urgently needed to support the adequate implementation of land use policies. We identify policies that have combined both poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation, and that can mutually strengthen each other in the long run, thereby offering an opportunity for sustainable development.

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LUPIS is an EU funded project run by 16 institutes in 13 countries. The project started on February 1, 2007 and will run for a period of 42 months (July 31, 2010).

The project will develop integrated assessment tools for sustainable development for application by scientists in a selected number of developing countries, and the tools developed in the EU 6th framework projects of SENSOR and SEAMLESS will be used both as building blocks in and guidelines for the project.

Main goals of the LUPIS project:
• Development of tools that are both generic and flexible, and that can be applied to a range of conditions in developing countries to perform ex-ante policy assessments
• Results will be compatible with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) initiative on data management to provide harmonised databases and services to be integrated in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
Through the predominant involvement of scientists from developing countries, use will be made of the tools developed by the SENSOR and SEAMLESS projects and adjusted to fit into the conditions in developing countries
• This effort will enable improved capacity for analysis of the impacts of land use policies on sustainable development, where the focus will specifically be on bio-diversity, public goods and services 

The LUPIS institutes and countries

For more information, please contact:

The coordinator of the LUPIS project
Dr. Floor Brouwer
LEI, Wageningen UR
floor.brouwer@wur.nl

The scientific officer of the LUPIS project
Dr. Karen Fabbri
European Commission DR RTD, Unit I4 - Natural Resources Management

LUPIS First team meeting in The Hague (The Netherlands) in July 2007