“We have a lot of rice fields in streams and mountains,” says Osamu Ikeda, a 44-year-old farmer in Nagaoka. “The problem is that the work in these areas is inefficient and yields are low.

"If I don't go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing ... Poligon is a rice farmer, mother of two, and an Ifugao, an indigenous mountain people that live in the Philippines in the ...

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. Poligon is a rice farmer, mother ...