Qatar

Middle East company adds spice to Australian grain
- ABC
- 09 December 2013
In four years, Hassad Foods has accumulated 255,000 hectares of agricultural land with the aim of producing 165,000 tonnes of grain and 100,000 lambs annually.
Qatar: la sécurité alimentaire comme instrument de puissance?
- L'Express
- 20 August 2013
Le Qatar compte bien faire de sa faiblesse sur le plan agricole, un atout d'influence sur la scène mondiale.
L'autosuffisance alimentaire, nouveau défi pharaonique du Qatar
- Challenges
- 23 July 2013
D'ici à 2030, le petit émirat souhaite ne plus dépendre des autres Etats pour nourrir sa population. Réaliste ou utopique?
Roumanie : la grande ruée sur les terres agricoles
- Nouvelles de Roumanie
- 27 June 2013
Selon l’association roumaine EcoRuralis, plus de 700.000 hectares, soit 6,5 % des terres arables du pays, seraient déjà aux mains de compagnies du Qatar, d’Arabie Saoudite ou de Grande-Bretagne.
Herbert Gontran Djono Ahaba
- Africa Intelligence
- 18 June 2013
Le Qatar avait depuis 2012 un diplomate en Centrafrique chargé de surveiller les opportunités de terres agricoles.
Qatar to invest $500 million in India after Bush acquisition
- Bloomberg
- 10 June 2013
Hassad Food Co., the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, plans to invest $500 million in India after buying Bush Foods Overseas Ltd.
Qatar's Hassad buys stake in Indian rice firm
- Arabian Business
- 03 April 2013
Hassad Food Co, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has bought a majority stake in an Indian basmati rice company for more than $100m, it was reported on Wednesday.
Qatar ponders investment in Sarawak halal hub
- 14 Mar 2013
Qatar will build a hub at Tanjung Manis in Sarawak, Malaysia, which is home to more than 77,000 hectares of agricultural land, mainly for the production of pharmaceuticals and halal food.
Hassad Food eyes new investments in Pakistan
- Gulf Times
- 14 Mar 2013
Qatar has plans to expand its food security options in Pakistan and the state-owned corporation, Hassad Food, has opened an office in Lahore, Pakistan’s ambassador Mohamed Sarfraz A Khanzada told Gulf Times in an exclusive interview.
Le Qatar bâtit des fermes dans le désert pour assurer sa sécurité alimentaire
- Le Monde
- 07 December 2012
Ce recentrage sur la production locale ne signifie pas que le Qatar abandonne sa politique d'acquisition de terres à l'étranger.
From Doha to Dakar, food insecurity is the norm
- IPS
- 04 December 2012
As African countries struggle to make use of their vast land resources to improve food production because of climate change, Qatar, like other Gulf States and emerging economies such as China, is leasing and buying land in Africa.
Australian elite seeks to bridge Middle East investment gulf
- WSJ
- 30 November 2012
“When things are mortgaged up to the hilt and the banks are involved then it’s either bank ownership or foreign ownership,” says South Australian sheep farmer Brian Wilson