Leah Samberg

Leah Samberg is a postdoctoral research associate with the Global Landscapes Initiative. Her research addresses the interaction of social and environmental processes in small scale agricultural landscapes, and trade-offs between food security and conservation. She has worked in southern Ethiopia to determine the effects of farmer management on agricultural biodiversity, with The Nature Conservancy to assess the benefits of conservation initiatives for rural communities, and on a National Science Foundation Coupled Natural-Human Systems project linking pastoral livelihoods to grassland sustainability on the Tibetan Plateau. She works across disciplines, from ecology and conservation genetics to social science and ecological economics. Leah spends her free time backcountry skiing, running, writing and working in the garden.

Salem Abdullah Musabih, 6, lies on a bed at a malnutrition intensive care unit at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodaida, Yemen, Sept. 11, 2016. Millions of Yemenis face food shortages and the threat of famine after more than two years of civil wa

World hunger has increased for the first time in 15 years. Blame war and climate change.

October 18, 2017Conflict

Around the globe, about 815 million people — 11 percent of the world’s population — went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15 years.