Almost 400 square kilometres of rice terraces, which they have been cultivating for 2,000 years, are spread across the historic landscape. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1995 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOMBOK, Indonesia – Lying east of Bali, the island of Lombok is often referred to as “Bali’s little sister”. Quieter and less ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering, have existed in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere for as long as two millennia. You don't have to be an expert to know that the ...

2001 Report on the ICOMOS/IUCN Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, 22-25 ... 1998 ICOMOS Expert Mission Report, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, ...

Japan is famous for combining ancient traditions with futuristic cities, but it also has a surprising side. Scattered across the country are places that look like they belong somewhere else entirely: ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...