Leah Mungai
PhD, Michigan State University, 2020
Geography, Human-Environment Interactions, Sustainable Agriculture for Smallholder Farming Systems and Agricultural Extension Services, Land Cover and Land Use Change, Sub-Sahara Africa
Research Interests:
Dr. Mungai is a Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions using an interdisciplinary lens of geography and agroecology at multiple geographic scales for African smallholder farming systems. She uses geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing to examine spatial-temporal patterns of sustainable intensification of agriculture. She links these to land use, climate, and social-economic drivers using mixed-methods that integrate context-specific information from researchers, farming communities, and extension services to develop appropriate solutions towards sustainable agricultural systems. Dr. Mungai is the primary organizer of The future of food security: Geospatial solutions to agricultural challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa paper session at the American Association of Geographers 2023 Annual Meeting.