• Qatar largest investor in Sudan farms
    • The Peninsula
    • 27 December 2009

    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
    • Qatar News Agency
    • 22 December 2009

    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.

  • Wikileaks: Qatar sharpening focus on food security and related technologies
    • Wikileaks
    • 16 December 2009

    "Hassad [Food] has innovated by considering investments in overseas agribusinesses rather than only purchasing land in countries with questionable property rights, and where the indigenous population may not benefit from such purchases," writes the US embassy in Doha

  • Qatari firm seeks to bring welfare, profit sharing to agriculture ventures
    • The National
    • 12 December 2009

    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
    • Qatar Today
    • 06 December 2009

    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
    • AFP
    • 01 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.

  • Sudán, ¿el futuro granero de Oriente Medio?
    • AFP
    • 26 November 2009

    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
    • Gulf Times
    • 25 November 2009

    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
    • Al Jazeera
    • 18 November 2009

    The French farming minister warned these "predatory investments" prevented countries from feeding themselves. Al Jazeera reports.

  • Emir launches Qatar project on food security
    • Gulf Times
    • 17 November 2009

    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
    • Reuters
    • 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

  • Answering the food security colonial conundrum?
    • The Gulf Blog
    • 07 November 2009

    One must ask if arrangements such as those promoted by Hassad Foods of Qatar are really that much better.

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