Ifugao Rice Terraces: The Engineering, the Culture, and the Threat Nobody Is Discussing Loudly Enough
The terraces weren’t built by an empire. No colonial authority commissioned them. No central government funded them. The Ifugao people of the Cordillera built them one terrace at a time, across generations. No concrete or heavy machinery. No blueprint that anyone would recognize today. They built on slopes so steep that modern earthworks equipment would