Jesse Ribot is studying hunger from market grabbing – elite price fixing in rural markets. His long-term fieldwork, mostly in West Africa, is on vulnerability and climate change, and on farmer representation in resource struggles. He teaches environmental politics at American University since 2019. Earlier he taught in Geography, Anthropology and Natural Resources and Environmental Science at University of Illinois and in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. For 8 years he was a senior associate at World Resources Institute. He has been many fellows – including 2018-19 Guggenheim. Ribot recounts findings through books, articles, briefs, editorials, films, sculpture and teaching.