ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with selected aspects of agricultural development among the Ibaloi, one of the several ethnic groups known collectively as "Igorot," or "mountain people," in northern Luzon, the Philippines. The three Ibaloi communities have all experienced growth, but their degree of commercialization and economic integration with the outside world differs considerably. A relatively homogeneous culture and generally similar land resource base is possessed by the Ibaloi of the first two communities, Kadasan and Balbalikong. The Ibaloi household generally comprises parents and their unmarried offspring. Prior to the turn of the nineteenth century wet rice cultivation had diffused throughout most Ibaloi communities, probably coming from their neighbors in the north of the mountain range. In the traditional Ibaloi system of values at Kadasan, quantity in rice production is not more important than quality.
