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Oakland Institute
The Oakland Institute is a progressive think tank founded in 2004 by Anuradha Mittal, the former co-director of Food First. Mittal is a considered an "expert on trade, development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues".〔(www.speakoutnow.org ) Anuradha Mittal's profile on the Speak Out Now website.〕 It is headquartered in Oakland, California.
==Achievements==
Since 2011, the Institute has unveiled land investment deals〔() The Oakland Institute's reports and documentation on land investment deals in Africa.〕 in developing countries that reveal a disturbing pattern of a lack of transparency, fairness, and accountability. The dynamic relationship between research, advocacy, and international media coverage has resulted in an amazing string of successes and organizing in the U.S. and abroad.
In 2011, the institute exposed the US$26 million investment made by Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, in Emergent Asset Management, later known as EMVest Asset Management, a hedge fund "accused of "land grabbing," or taking over agricultural land used by local communities through exploitative practices and using it for large-scale commercial export farming" () "in five sub-Saharan African countries, including Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe."〔(Vanderbilt University Divests from "Land Grab" in Africa ), Oakland Institute, February 13, 2013〕 The revelation made international headlines, with coverage in ''The Guardian'', and led to student protests on campus in 2012.〔〔John Vidal, Claire Provost, (US universities in Africa 'land grab' ), ''The Guardian'', June 8, 2011〕 By 2013, Vanderbilt administrators had caved in to the public outcry and divested from EMInvest.〔
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