Introduction
As welcomed by decision X/6 of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10) in Nagoya, Japan, the First Expert Meeting on Biodiversity for Poverty Eradication and Development, hosted by India through its Ministry of Environment and Forest, was held from 12 to 15 December 2011 at the Indian Council of Forest Research and Education in Dehradun, India. The meeting was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), co-hosted by the Indian Ministry of Environment and was supported through the generous financial contributions by Japan, Germany and France.
