LUMENS:
• Was specifically developed to empower multi-stakeholder negotiations for planning sustainable landscapes that can support livelihoods and development while maintaining and restoring environmental services, especially in tropical countries
• Is a framework based on user-friendly, parsimonious and publicly available software
• Supports inclusive, integrated and informed negotiations about land use
• Is a spatially-explicit, semi-agent-based model that accommodates a broad range of scenarios
• Require minimal input data, recognizing the scarcity of reliable data in developing countries