Heirloom Rice from the Philippines

Preserving a taste. Protecting a heritage.

From 2005 to 2019, the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project  worked to preserve heirloom rice and the culture of community rice production in the Cordillera region of northern Luzon. This effort was a collaboration between RICE, Inc., a registered NGO in the Philippines, indigenous rice farmers of the Cordillera mountains and Eighth Wonder, Inc., the project’s US-based fair trade marketing partner.

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IRRI Video: Heirloom Rice: People, Place, Purpose

Adopt-a-Terrace Program

Current news from the Cordillera

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Heirloom Rice around the world

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Genetic Diversity Analysis of heirloom rice variants

Tupnew Canal restoration

In 2016, an Adopt-a-Terrace grant to Kadaclan farmers repaired the Tupnew irrigation canal.  Read more