A team of regional, national and local experts were commissioned to update the existing Ifugao Rice Terraces Restoration and Preservation Master Plan, and to prepare project proposals aimed at ...

and an Ifugao, indigenous mountain people that live in the Philippines in the north of Luzon island. Almost 400 square kilometres (154 square miles) of rice terraces, which they have been ...

For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountains. The fruit of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next, and the expression of sacred ...

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. "If I don't go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat." It takes her an hour for a return trip to Batad, traversing rough terrain to reach ...

and an Ifugao, indigenous mountain people that live in the Philippines in the north of Luzon island. Almost 400 square kilometres (154 square miles) of rice terraces, which they have been cultivating ...

"There is less manpower, but more machines. Besides, no one sells their rice terraces to non-Ifugao - it would be against our culture." That evening Jenelyn Tundagui arranged a singing and dancing ...