• Qatar's farmland investment Hassad Australia yet to make profit
    • AFR
    • 10 Mar 2016

    Hassad Australia, the $469 million agricultural land company owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has delivered a $3.46 million loss and is yet to make a profit since beginning in Australia in 2010.

  • Qatar’s Hassad buys into Oman poultry project
    • Trade Arabia
    • 09 February 2015

    A'Saffa Foods was established in 2001 and is the largest integrated poultry project in the Sultanate of Oman, covering over a 40 sq km farm area in Thumrit, Southern Oman.

  • Stop Devoting Our Lands for Food Security of Other Nations
    • Asian Peasant Coalition
    • 29 Mar 2012

    At least 100 farmers joined a protest in front of the Department of Agriculture in Quezon City led by the members of the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in the Philippines such as the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), AMIHAN (National Federation of Peasant Women), UMA (Union of Agricultural Workers), and the PAMALAKAYA (National Federation of Small Fisherfolks of the Philippines). Also present is the Anakpawis partylist and the National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates (NNARA)-Youth.

  • KMP charges Aquino envoy of inking anomalous $300M agri-deal with Bahrain
    • Bulatlat
    • 10 February 2012

    “This so-called joint venture smacks of land-grabbing and conflict of interest on the part of President Aquino’s political lieutenant in the Gulf.” – Danilo Ramos, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas

  • Tillers seek probe of $300 M land lease deal with Bahrain
    • KMP
    • 03 February 2012

    The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.

  • Bahrain firm inks $50m Philippines farm deal
    • Manama
    • 19 January 2012

    Bahrain’s Nadir and Ibrahim Sons of Hassan Group has signed a $50 million agriculture investment deal with AMA Group Holdings to use public land to grow crops including sugar, rice and bananas.

  • Visionary alternatives to boost food security
    • The National
    • 08 February 2011

    Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".

  • Bahrain firm signs key India agriculture deal
    • Gulf Daily News
    • 23 September 2010

    Hassan Group will cultivate 4,000 hectares of arable land in India to produce fruits (banana), rice and sugarcane for the Bahraini market.

  • AMA Group, Bahrain's NEH seal $300-M banana deal
    • GMA News
    • 09 September 2010

    The Philippine government has identified 10,000 ha for the Bahrain banana project in Davao del Norte. It also awaits follow-up visits from Saudi Arabia to finalize a $238.6m deal the kingdom committed to invest in fruit, aquaculture and halal food production.

  • Liberals to limit foreign farm investment
    • The Australian
    • 31 July 2010

    LABOR has demanded the Coalition back foreign investment in the farm sector after it said he would be prepared to limit foreign purchases.

  • Bahrain to set up $500m Manila agri JV
    • TradeArabia News Service
    • 14 Mar 2009

    Bahrain and the Philippines have signed an agreement to set up a $500 million joint agricultural company to help achieve food sufficiency in the kingdom and the GCC states.

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