Summary
This document provides a strategic, legal, technical and financial description of MOCUPP, Costa Rica's national tool for monitoring land use change within production landscapes linked with tenure. It begins with current legislation supporting development of the tool, followed by its relation to the current National Development Plan and other environmental policy instruments. The document proceeds with a summary of objectives and expected results, followed by a description of the strategic linkage between three entities, independent but functioning and growing together to monitor yearly land use change within production landscapes at national level, the ¬first service of its kind in the world. A technical section looks at the procedure for generating maps on forest loss and gain and total commodities land cover with teledetection. Finally, the last section presents a design for the system's consolidation with funding obtained to date, it identifi¬es the resources required for its operation in the long-run. The document is designed to show all of the components and costs of the Costa Rican monitoring system so that other countries can study, replicate and improve the tool.