Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A place of living democracy: the meeting place in Cambulo, where problems are solved under the eye of the village chief. Andreas ...

I gaze into the lush green valley, where terraces ripple in seemingly endless rows, their fractal-like patterns catching the last light of the fading sun. A profound stillness hangs in the air, broken ...

Indigenous communities have lived with changes to the climate for centuries. Their adaptations over those many years are based on their close observation of weather, water, soils and seasonal change, ...

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Deep in Luzon's north, Banaue is home to one of the Philippines' greatest wonders: miles of rice terraces, hand-carved into the Cordilleras mountains in the heart of Ifugao Province.

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 global impact of traditional tattooing and the need to end its stigma is explored in upcoming feature-documentary “Treasure of the Rice Terraces,” directed by Filipino-Canadian Kent Donguines. The ...

Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines travels back to the Philippines to reconnect with his roots. In a nation with over 134,000 years of history and centuries of colonization — under Spanish, ...