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![Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding]( "Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding")
8 March 2010Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.
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1 February 2010Human rights workers said risks to the rural poor over such deals are significant because they are regularly evicted to make way for foreign investors.
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21 January 2010Peter Costello, the former treasurer of Australia, revealed Wednesday he was working with an investment fund that planned to inject US$600 million into Cambodia’s agricultural sector. The projects will cover a vast area, about 100,000 hectares.
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15 January 2010Some of the world's biggest sugar players, including Brazil's Cosan, New York-listed Bunge and privately held US multinational Cargill, might join China in the race for CSR's sugar division
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![Glencore bond an ‘opportunity’, Chinese group says]( "Glencore bond an ‘opportunity’, Chinese group says")
24 December 2009Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
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22 December 2009Hassad Food has launched a large project for producing livestock in Australia with a capacity of up to 70,000 Syrian head of sheep in its first year, and then up to 150,000 head of sheep in three years. The company will also purchase farmlands for the production of grains especially wheat.
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21 December 2009Dubai World said on Friday the company was not involved in the dairy farm purchases "in any way".
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12 December 2009Qatar has embarked on a food-security programme to make it more self-sufficient and help the communities around its farmland projects in developing countries.
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23 November 2009Foreign companies are covertly buying up adjacent farms in Australia to use as a "salad bowl" in the case of global food shortages.
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![Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security]( "Healthy balance at stake in plans for food security")
25 October 2009UAE foreign investment in food production have so far focused on leasing Pakistan and Sudan’s agricultural land, with new prospects in Cambodian rice, Canadian wheat and Australian beef. Alongside the strategic deals at the national level, private investment has followed which should open new channels of trade, for example, Al Qudra Holding has plans to grow grain and vegetables in Vietnam and Croatia as well as Pakistan.
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29 September 2009Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital is investing in 210,000 ha of farmland in Sudan, where it got the right to the land for 99 years.
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![Agriculture wins pension fund mandates]( "Agriculture wins pension fund mandates")
28 September 2009Key areas of investment interest from pension and sovereign wealth funds in UK, Middle East, Europe and the US include agriculture land in Australia, South and North America, and throughout Europe.
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![Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam]( "Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam")
18 September 2009The Australian almond plantations of agribusiness group Timbercorp have been sold to Singapore-based multinational food giant Olam International for $128 million.
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![Asian interest in Aussie farmland: rural rebound]( "Asian interest in Aussie farmland: rural rebound")
3 September 2009Ray White Rural chairman Paul White said there was interest in Australian rural property from Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian investment groups, looking to secure their food supply for the future.
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13 August 2009Gulf states buying farmland in developing nations for food security face the risk of damaging their reputation as international investors as the deals are seen as land grabs, a Rothschild executive said yesterday.
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2 July 2009The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.
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25 June 2009Greg Mason, from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, says countries and regions facing 'peak water' like China, India and the Arab states are looking to solve food shortages by growing crops in places like the Ukraine and Australia.
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24 June 2009Despite criticism for Chinese efforts to acquire large-scale farmland in Africa, China is seen continuing to aggressively pursue acquisitions in other countries. says Michael Whitehead, executive director of the food and agribusiness research and advisory unit at Rabobank International.
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23 May 2009Saudi agricultural company Tabuk Agricultural Development Co has started preparations to invest in food production abroad, driving up its stock.
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26 April 2009The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.