"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 the village that is inaccessible by ...

One such remarkable example can be found in the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines. The Ifugao Rice Terraces have been cultivated for over 2,000 years, showcasing the ingenuity and ...

1998 ICOMOS Expert Mission Report, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, December 1998 Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2018 The State Party did not submit the ...

Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice, an annual grass belonging to the same family as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, grows today in a range ...

With a new city policy (hopefully drawn by new officials) to make rice terraces out of idle lands, employing modern technology, we can replicate the Banawe and Cadapdapan Rice Terraces.

Illuminations are a popular winter event all across Japan, and one of the more unusual spectacles this year is this massive light-up of rice terraces in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture. Located in the ...

The Japanese government held a rare auction this week to make up for a rice shortage that an official called “truly unthinkable.” By Kiuko Notoya and Yan Zhuang Kiuko Notoya reported from ...

New information: ICOMOS Germany expressed serious concern on the state of conservation and management of the Rice Terraces Philippines Cordilleras in December 1998, following an expert mission ...