The Ifugao State University (IFSU) commemorates the 30th anniversary of the designation of the Ifugao Rice Terraces (IRT) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and its 14th anniversary as a Globally ...

Hand-carved in the hillsides some 500 years ago, the scenic rice terraces of the Philippines’ Ifugao province are recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and are a major draw for domestic and ...

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The centuries-old rice terraces of Ifugao—a World Heritage Site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and a living symbol of the ...

BANAUE, Philippines (Reuters) - As the Philippines grapples with its worst food crisis in years, many farmers in its cradle of rice cultivation are abandoning farming for more lucrative trades. Sign ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Revenue from a small hydropower plant that cost little more than a supercar to build, will help preserve 2,000-year-old Philippine rice terraces dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun 2016) (14 pages) ABSTRACT. The social-ecological systems of rice terraces across Southeast Asia are the result of centuries of long-term interactions between ...

A government office in Mexico posted the wrong photo of what it claimed as the Ifugao Rice Terraces but was actually from China—even as it dismissed a Filipino researcher who corrected the page. In a ...