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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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26 February 2010Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co. plans to invest in Georgia, including the purchase of farm land, following a fact-finding trip in April.
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18 February 2010BKK Partners, an Australian financial advisory firm, has a client that wants to buy 100,000 ha of Cambodian farmland. Human rights workers and politicians are concerned.
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17 February 2010Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank is tapping Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund as well as other government and private entities as the bank seeks to double financing for agriculture sector in developing countries.
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4 February 2010A delegation of top Kenana Sugar officials is in Doha to hold talks with Qatar’s Hassad group to create one of the world’s biggest food producing companies with a view to ensuring food security in the Arab world.
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24 January 2010A top-level Qatar National Food Security Programme (QNFSP) delegation, led by QNFSP chairman Fahd al Attiyah, will visit agricultural research institutes and meet senior US Government officials, including from the White House, the State Department, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy during its week-long US programme.
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21 January 2010Both private and public sector investors from countries such as Qatar, Libya, Jordan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the Arab world as well as China and Korea elsewhere now hold long term rights to a total of two million feddans of arable land in Sudan, according to figures from the country’s agriculture ministry.
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![Qatar largest investor in Sudan farms]( "Qatar largest investor in Sudan farms")
27 December 2009Qatar is one of the leading investors in the agricultural sector in Sudan, says a former minister of irrigation of Egypt.
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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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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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6 December 2009Hassad Food plans to invest all over the world. “Latin America, Asia, you name it,” says Al Hajri, “Where we invest, we make profit. If Qatar is in need of that production, Hassad has the pleasure to sell to Qatar at no special rate.”
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1 December 2009"I think it is not right to sell or give your land to foreigners... until you have exhausted every local possibility," said Osama Daoud, chief executive of the Sudanese DAL group which runs large agricultural projects.
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26 November 2009Inversores árabes y asiáticos buscan tomar el control de amplias extensiones de tierras fértiles en Sudán, el país más grande de África, que quiere convertirse en el granero de Oriente Medio, aunque para ello deberá modernizar primero su agricultura.
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25 November 2009Belarus has fertile land for agriculture and Hassad Food is evaluating different features in such markets like ease of laws
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18 November 2009The French farming minister warned these "predatory investments" prevented countries from feeding themselves. Al Jazeera reports.
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17 November 2009Meanwhile, the government is planning to launch an initial public offering for the shares of Hassad Food, the strategic food investment arm of Qatar Investment Authority, in order to list it on the local bourse, according to Doha-based Al Arab daily.
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11 November 2009"Agriculture companies from Germany and the United States have also shown interest in developing a project in Iraq, but nothing is final yet," said Sami R Al Araji, the chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission
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![Answering the food security colonial conundrum?]( "Answering the food security colonial conundrum?")
7 November 2009One must ask if arrangements such as those promoted by Hassad Foods of Qatar are really that much better.
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![Hassad Food plans $68m poultry project]( "Hassad Food plans $68m poultry project")
5 November 2009The firm also aims to conclude as many as six deals by year end, including in Latin America and is scouting Africa to set up joint ventures or buy firms to develop land.
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29 October 2009Qatar's Hassad Food is eyeing a stake in Russia's PAVA and has signed a deal potentially worth $1 billion to develop land in Sudan as it looks to grow through acquisitions and joint ventures, its chairman said on Thursday.