Cooperatives continue to be vital partners in promoting social and economic development—empowering people to rise from ...

More than a hundred residents of barangay Dulao in this municipality availed of the services offered during a recent  Bureau ...

HUNDREDS of locals and tourists gathered recently in Lagawe, capital town of Ifugao, to witness different cultural activities in the weeklong Gotad Ad (“thanksgiving” or “merrymaking”), a showcase of ...

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Ifugao woodcarvers heaved a sigh of relief following the government's decision to exempt them from the total log ban. In a memorandum dated January 9, 2013, through ...

Liberty "Libby" Sayansan is a daycare worker at the Sitio Bamyan Daycare Center in Nalapaan, Pikit, North Cotabato. Libby, whose grandmother studied under the Americans, taught her Aromanen parents ...

KIANGAN, Ifugao, Philippines — With the boys donning their “wanno,” or G-string, and the girls their “ampuyo,” or wraparound skirt, while performing a traditional dance, a new Ifugao generation is ...

For Joy Poligon, life is simple, if harsh. “If I don’t go to our rice field every day, we will have nothing to eat.” It takes her an hour for a return trip. Poligon is a rice farmer, mother of two, ...

TO PROMOTE and properly preserve its rich culture, the province of Ifugao has veered away from the typical ati-atihan-type of festivals. It incorporated in fact more ethnic activities in this year’s ...

TWO NEW BOOKS by the same two authors have come out recently and are major contributions to the understanding of Ifugao culture on the Grand Cordillera mountains of Northern Luzon and a new approach ...

HUNGDUAN, Ifugao—Residents of Hungduan town in Ifugao wore their G-strings and ritual garbs and went to the nearest river to join several native games to express gratitude for a good harvest this year ...

Teach them to knit, and they will be fed for a lifetime. There are two sides to the Banaue Rice Terraces: the terraces themselves, and the Ifugao stewards who have maintained this source of national ...