{"id":22933,"date":"2011-06-09T08:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22933"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:14:46","slug":"u-s-colleges-accused-of-african-land-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/u-s-colleges-accused-of-african-land-grabs.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. colleges accused of African &#8220;land grabs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News &#8211; The questionable, unchecked, speculative practices of large financial institutions that sent the world into a near-calamitous economic recession recently are being repeated in Africa through land-grabbing deals, The Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank, said in\u00a0a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds are partaking in &#8220;largely unregulated land purchases&#8221; throughout the continent that essentially amount to &#8220;the conversion of African small farms and forests into a natural-asset-based, high-return investment strategy&#8221; and are often nothing more than &#8220;land grabs,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503543_162-20070234-503543.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News &#8211; The questionable, unchecked, speculative practices of large financial institutions that sent the world into a near-calamitous economic recession recently are being repeated in Africa through land-grabbing deals, The Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank, said in\u00a0a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22934,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933\/revisions\/22934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}