They live in 82 villages situated between the mountaintop forests and the terraces. The villages feature traditional thatched “mushroom” houses. The resilient land management system of the rice ...

The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is an outstanding ... cluster which is characterized by terraces interspersed with traditional farmers’ bale (houses) and alang (granaries); (iv) the ...

"If I don't go to our rice field every day ... tuk-tuk drivers for transfers and the hosts who take guests into their homes.

Hacked from mountains in south-western China, the sprawling Honghe Hani Rice Terraces stack up over ... their squat, ochre-hued houses of adobe and stone topped with mushroom-like thatched roofs.

Examples range from adapted wetland parks in Chinese cities to homes in Vietnam with rice ... are actually in the past," says Voraakhom. Rice terraces have been used for thousands of years and ...

The Ifugao Rice Terraces, which follow the natural contours of the mountains, only enhance the region’s rugged natural beauty. They also epitomize a harmonic, sustainable relationship between ...

Rice cultivation, fish farming and duck ... Through dividends, the company encourages villagers to conserve traditional houses, cultivate terraces, and retain their village household registration.

The Banaue Rice Terraces are sometimes called the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’. Perched 1,500 metres up on the side of the Cordillera mountains in Ifugao, Philippines, the network of fields ...

He said while planting on the terraces is not economically viable ... well as the traditional way of hauling from the rice paddies to a native house. Roscoe Kalaw, Ifugao’s provincial tourism ...

Perhaps her most intriguing design so far has been an enormous nature-laden university roof inspired by rice terraces, a traditional form of agriculture that has been practised in Asia for some ...