This book is situated within the wider discourse of rural livelihoods and agriculture-for-development, and uses the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project (CHRP) as its main case study. The CHRP is a tripartite partnership between Eighth Wonder, a U.S.-based for-profit business which imports indigenous Filipino rice at at a fairly traded price; RICE Inc, a Filipino NGO that encourages indigenous farmers to form cooperatives and trains them in organic farming techniques; and the indigenous rice terrace farmers of the Cordillera. Aris examines the theoretical aims and approaches of the CHRP, and then...