Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

For 2,000 years, Ifugao farmers have sculpted the Cordillera into staircases of rice. Passed from generation to generation along with the sacred rituals and social codes that maintain them, the terraces trace every contour of the mountains — agriculture elevated into landscape art, and a model of harmony between people and environment. UNESCO inscribed the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras in 1995.