UAE

UAE’s Al Dahra to invest further $500m in Romania
- Reuters
- 25 September 2018
Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Holding said on Monday it will invest a further $500m in various sectors in the Romanian market after acquiring the largest farm producer there.
Sokotra Capital buys Tunisian fish-farm business
- Bloomberg
- 03 August 2018
Sokotra Capital, a Dubai firm set up by former UBS Group AG banker Albert Momdjian, led a consortium of investors in acquiring fish-farm L’Aquaculture Tunisienne for an undisclosed amount.
Behind the spectacular fall from grace of private equity firm Abraaj
- Deal Street Asia
- 30 July 2018
Abraaj Capital, the PE firm that was very active in the rush to buy global farmland after the food financial crises of 2008, has collapsed and is under investigation for “mismanagement, comingling of funds and misappropriation of assets"
500 hectares de myrtilles en Serbie: nouveau défi pour Elite Agro
- Fructidor
- 09 July 2018
Un protocole d'entente signé avec Mountain Blue Orchards (Australie) et Driscoll's créé une nouvelle opportunité pour Elite Agro de cultiver des baies toute l'année en Serbie et en Mauritanie pour les marchés du CCG (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Arabie Saoudite, Emirats Arabes Unis).
UAE-based Al Dahra aquires Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania
- Business Reveiw
- 02 July 2018
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.
Nicoletti farming business hits the market
- The Land
- 16 May 2018
“I’ve got strong interest from Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai and they want to come out now and have a look around," says the owner of the largest semi-contiguous cropping aggregation to be offered in Australia’s history.
Investment Corporation of Dubai-created a partnership with farming company Optimum Agriculture to invest into the Agro business sector
- PR Newswire
- 15 May 2018
Once one of Florida's iconic ranching dynasties has sold the balance of its Osceola County land holdings to a global agribusiness firm Optimum Agriculture and the government of Dubai for $136.5 million.
Al Dahra Group close to 200 million euro deal for Agricost, Romania’s largest grain producer
- Oilseed & Grain
- 09 April 2018
Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Group is close to a 200 million Euro deal (US$245 million) to acquire Agricost Braila, the largest farm in Europe.
Uganda allots 27 square miles of land to UAE investor
- Africa Business
- 12 Mar 2018
President Museveni has promised to allot 7,000 hectares of land in Mbarara District to one of the UAE’s largest dairy companies, Al Rawabi, to set up model farm in the country. The investor and CEO, Dr Ahmad Eltigani Al Mansouri, will bring in new technology to fertilise cows that produce high milk, according to a press release from State House.
Abu Dhabi’s efforts to boost local agricultural production
- OBG
- 28 February 2018
Abu Dhabi-based Jenaan Investment has a new joint venture with the government of Sudan to farm 10,000 ha there to produce fodder for livestock in the UAE.
UAE Ministry of Economy explores agricultural investment opportunities with Ethiopia
- albawaba
- 20 February 2018
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy says that investments in the fields of agriculture and food industries are among the prominent sectors that attract UAE investments abroad as the country currently imports about 80 per cent of its food needs.
Dubai's Al Khaleej in $1 bln Egypt beet sugar mill deal
- Reuters
- 05 February 2018
A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.