Ricefield Collective crafts high-quality handmade knitted accessories while helping provide a fulfilling means for Philippine indigenous people to stay on their ancestral land.
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Knitting to improve lives in the historic Ifugao region of the Philippines, where farmers continue to cultivate rice by hand.
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Training villagers to make high-quality products, which gives them income that can allow them to live sustainably on their ancestral land.
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The Ifugao Rice Terraces were buitl more than a thousand years ago, and are threatened by erosion due to abandonment.
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To maintain their way of life, villagers must find income in addition to rice cultivation to survive.
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Ricefield also provides support for the sale and distribution of villagers' products, both int he Philippines and internationally.
