Qatar

Food: The big fright
- Qatar Today
- 23 February 2011
Qatar pursuing a "shared-benefits model" that meets the needs of investors and local communities in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
Qatar plans to make barren land arable to increase food security
- Green Prophet
- 21 February 2011
Unlike other Gulf countries that are usurping African land to expand their agricultural capacity, Qatar intends to transform its own barren land into an agricultural powerhouse.
Arab farm investment push
- Stock & Land
- 10 February 2011
Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is leading a push to get Arabs to invest in Australian farmland as part of a long term food security strategy for oil-rich Gulf States
Gulf Arab governments tackle higher food prices
- Reuters
- 03 February 2011
Countries in north Africa and the Middle East are urgently seeking ways to soften the blow of surging food prices for their citizens, alarmed by protests against authoritarian rulers from Algeria to Yemen.
Argentine president oversees deals in Kuwait
- AFP
- 16 January 2011
The Argentine delegation is to present a total of 24 investment projects in the South American country during the tour, Timerman said without giving details.
Soros's Adecoagro plans public offering in US, may sell shares to Qatar
- Bloomberg
- 14 January 2011
Adecoagro SA, a farmland venture in South America that’s backed by billionaire George Soros, plans to raise as much as $429 million in an initial public offering in the US as food prices surge.
You reap what you sow
- Arabian Business
- 13 January 2011
As Gulf states continue to invest in foreign farmland, what are the long term implications
Money talks: Qatar's FIFA bid fits sovereign wealth fund investment strategy
- Bleacher Report
- 13 January 2011
A closer look at Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the relationship between sports investments by oil-rich nations and acquisitions by their sovereign wealth funds.
Outsourced African farming threatens to alienate locals
- The National
- 20 December 2010
Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.
How China pushed Qatar out of Sh400bn Lamu port deal
- Daily Nation
- 10 December 2010
A wikileaks cable discusses the transfer of the Lamu port deal from Qatar to China. Little word about the fate of the 40,0000 ha of farmland promised to Qatar, however.
Ghana in talks with Qatar to set joint venture agriculture firm
- Reuters
- 04 December 2010
Ghana is negotiating with Qatar to establish a joint venture firm to produce food for both countries, starting with 50,000 hectares.
QA service to Buenos Aires ‘will boost ties’
- Gulf Times
- 02 December 2010
Argentina Tourism Minister Carlos Meyer has hailed Qatar Airways’ flights from Buenos Aires to Doha as an important step for enhanced ties between the two countries, including farmland acquisitions.