Collective Journalism | June 09, 2011 | 0 comments

U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/us_colleges_get_in_on_african_land_grabs_20110609/

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American universities are reportedly using endowment funds to buy and lease vast tracts of African farmland, often for piddling prices, in deals that will reward foreign investors handsomely while separating tens of thousands from their homes and farms and providing little or none of the economic benefits promised them, California researchers say.

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