Abstract
[First paragraph]: On Wednesday, June 8, 2011, UK’s The Guardian reported that numerous US universities including Harvard and Vanderbilt were invested in companies that were buying large tracts of African
farmland and kicking off the indigenous farmers in order for their employees (mostly non-Africans) to
grow cash crops to sell to Europe.1 Harms associated with this land-grabbing include, in addition
to the evictions themselves, corruption among African governments and among absentee African
land owners, increased food prices, and accelerated climate change.