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Myanmar's artisanal hilsa fisheries. How much are they really worth?
… Current national statistics do not capture the true value of Myanmar’s hilsa fisheries. … value of artisanal hilsa fisheries in Myanmar, using artisanal income data to estimate use value and a benefit transfer to estimate non-use …
Publication, 01 September 2020
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Ranks are statistics: some advice for their interpretation
… Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 6 Ranks are statistics: some advice for their interpretation William J. Fielding, … by classifying collected largely ignored and training manuals on PRA data. This article results from examination of a are almost totally … PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Ranks are statistics: some advice for their interpretation …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… of families and local communities, yet they go unnoticed because statistics tend to focus on formal, industrial sectors. As a result, … improve the way they account for small-scale fisheries, especially in data challenging environments  Capacity building, through a webinar to … SDG reporting, and local needs of poverty reduction; and conduct a data and policy mapping An animation, which can be viewed below on or I …
Project, 05 August 2019
Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh queue to get access to a raised tube well; local indicators about access to water are essential for the SDGs (Photo: Development Planning Unit, UCL, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Where are the local indicators for the SDGs?
… are made with little consideration of the capacity to collect data or the cost. But some targets need many indicators.   For instance, … most low-income urban dwellers rely on more than one source, such data are needed for each source they use.   Assessing who has "adequate … what the SDGs promise in regard to water and sanitation? These are statistics needed for each locality. So we know the settlements (and …
Insight, 09 March 2016
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Global Trends in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A review of key numbers and issues
… decades, despite an ongoing lack of understanding and statistical data for the sector. The existing literature, both academic and grey, … together and providing updated information. Although secondary data collection is used as the main research method, the paper also … some of the knowledge gaps in the sector and pulls together important data on selected thematic areas. It is expected to provide a platform …
Publication, 01 January 2018
Tokyo skyline
The world's 100 largest cities from 1800 to 2020, and beyond
… edition will be published later this year. Almost all the population data in this blog is from the UN Population Division's World … has changed from 1800 to 2020 – with projections up to 2035. The statistics for 2020 are projections as the most recent census data for most nations are from 2009 to 2012. The surging scale of large …
Insight, 16 January 2020
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Finding evidence for the impact of incentive-based hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh: combining theory-testing and remote sensing methods.
… so, due to the limited availability of baseline social and ecological data in the hilsa fishery, there has been no rigorous impact evaluation … analyses of fishers’ knowledge and perceptions with remote sensing data to increase confidence in some components of the hypothesised … contributed to some increase in hilsa abundance. In particular, radar data provided convincing evidence of compliance with sanctuary fishing …
Publication, 01 November 2016
Artisanal fishermen in the Philippines. In a nation made up of 7,100 islands, small-scale fishing provides livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of people. (Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Revealing the value of small-scale fishing to national economies
… used in different ways: they can be used to facilitate comparisons of data on production, trade and consumption of fish products, for example. … decisions in favour of small-scale fisheries. Disaggregating data can also help us see the contribution of the sector to jobs: we … are going to be linked to getting the data. Existing fishing statistics are unreliable and often are inconsistently collected. But …
Article, 23 May 2018
A panel of people sit at a desk facing seated guests, in front of a screen showing a steeply rising graph
Reporting greenhouse gas emissions: LDCs’ 20-year journey
Insight, 01 June 2021
Sewage and water runs down the centre of a makeshift 'drain' surrounded by sandbags and wood
Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
… differences in health outcomes. For example, the available statistics for infant, child or maternal mortality rates usually (but … advantage in many low-income nations is surprisingly small. Where data on infant and child mortality rates (PDF)  are available for urban … Statistics from the latest demographic and health surveys have data for 87 low- and middle- income nations. In 41 countries, U5MR are …
Insight, 01 September 2021