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How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

  • Written by Stephen Acabado, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
imageFarmers during harvest season in Batad, Ifugao, Philippines.Paul Connor and the Ifugao Archaeological Project, CC BY

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, and they have been refined...

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