Qatar Archive

  • Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding

    Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding

    Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian ­agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.
  • Qatar plans to grow corn in Georgia, import 70,000 sheep a year

    Qatar plans to grow corn in Georgia, import 70,000 sheep a year

    Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co. plans to invest in Georgia, including the purchase of farm land, following a fact-finding trip in April.
  • Proposed agricultural deal carries risk for Cambodia’s rural poor

    Proposed agricultural deal carries risk for Cambodia’s rural poor

    BKK 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.
  • IDB eyes Qatar funds to double farm financing

    IDB eyes Qatar funds to double farm financing

    Jeddah-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.
  • Sudan firm in talks with Hassad

    Sudan firm in talks with Hassad

    A 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.
  • Qatar seeks US tech deals on food security

    Qatar seeks US tech deals on food security

    A 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.
  • Significant progress – Agriculture and industry in Sudan

    Significant progress – Agriculture and industry in Sudan

    Both 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.
  • Qatar largest investor in Sudan farms

    Qatar largest investor in Sudan farms

    Qatar is one of the leading investors in the agricultural sector in Sudan, says a former minister of irrigation of Egypt.
  • Hassad Food launches livestock project in Australia

    Hassad Food launches livestock project in Australia

    Hassad 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.
  • Qatari firm seeks to bring welfare, profit sharing to agriculture ventures

    Qatari firm seeks to bring welfare, profit sharing to agriculture ventures

    Qatar has embarked on a food-security programme to make it more self-sufficient and help the communities around its farmland projects in developing countries.
  • Food poor and oil rich: Quelling Qatar’s appetite

    Food poor and oil rich: Quelling Qatar’s appetite

    Hassad 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.”
  • Sudan arable land attracting Arab, Asian investors

    Sudan arable land attracting Arab, Asian investors

    "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.
  • Sudán, ¿el futuro granero de Oriente Medio?

    Sudán, ¿el futuro granero de Oriente Medio?

    Inversores 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.
  • Qatar is eyeing food investment in Belarus

    Qatar is eyeing food investment in Belarus

    Belarus has fertile land for agriculture and Hassad Food is evaluating different features in such markets like ease of laws
  • ‘Land-grab’ for food security

    ‘Land-grab’ for food security

    The French farming minister warned these "predatory investments" prevented countries from feeding themselves. Al Jazeera reports.
  • Emir launches Qatar project on food security

    Emir launches Qatar project on food security

    Meanwhile, 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.
  • UAE firm to lease farmland in Iraq – official

    UAE firm to lease farmland in Iraq – official

    "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
  • Answering the food security colonial conundrum?

    Answering the food security colonial conundrum?

    One must ask if arrangements such as those promoted by Hassad Foods of Qatar are really that much better.
  • Hassad Food plans $68m poultry project

    Hassad Food plans $68m poultry project

    The 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.
  • Qatar SWF food unit eyes PAVA stake, seals Sudan deal

    Qatar SWF food unit eyes PAVA stake, seals Sudan deal

    Qatar'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.