U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2011 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )