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, ...

High above the town of Banaue in the Philippine Cordilleras, the Banaue Rice Terraces form a stepped landscape where mountain ...

Mountain terraces, developed by Indigenous peoples, slow water runoff, reduce erosion, and retain soil moisture, enabling agriculture on steep slopes under variable climates. These systems, seen in ...

Many of these terraces remained active from their construction in the late 16th to 17th centuries until the 20th century, when out-migration reduced the local labor force needed for routine ...