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07 May 2012AllAboutFeed.net

Hassad Foods and 250,000 ha of Australian farmland

Hassad Foods' farmland purchases in Australia are guided by a risk minimising strategy. The lands are distributed across different climes and water regimes over a wide geographic area.

16 Jun 2011Property Observer

Hassad Foods set to expand its Australian farmland holdings

The Middle Eastern company Hassad Foods, through Australian representatives, has been pinpointed as set to spend $45 million on five large western Victorian propertie

03 Mar 2011Reuters

Qatar’s political motivations a challenge to fund

Food investments may drive Qatar's sovereign wealth fund to look at Latin America as an important investment destination

29 Jan 2011Bloomberg

Soros-backed Adecoagro raises $314 million in IPO

Investing in Adecoagro is “a way to play the potential global shortage of food, especially in emerging markets,” says Francis Gaskins, president of IPOdesktop.com

13 Jan 2011Bleacher Report

Money talks: Qatar's FIFA bid fits sovereign wealth fund investment strategy

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.

08 Mar 2010Australian Financial Review

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.

12 Dec 2009The National

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.

07 Nov 2009The Gulf Blog

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.

05 Nov 2009Reuters

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.

05 Nov 2009The Peninsula

Hassad comes to the aid of less privileged

“This partnership is to create an environment for the active NGOs in Qatar to venture into our foreign investments,” said Nasser Mohamed Al Hajri, Chairman and Managing Director, Hassad Food.

08 Sep 2009The Economist

Food quest

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a venture aiming to invest in food production worldwide focusing on the acquisition and development of existing agribusiness companies rather than the lease of large tracts of farmland.

03 Sep 2009Wikileaks

Wikileaks: Qatari food company adapts investment strategy to concerns of partner countries

A Hassad Food advisor explained to Emboff September 3 that the company tailors its involvement in each country to the preferences of its partner in order to minimize local "backlash" to the company's actions.