13.08.2009 - Qatar's Hassad Food eyes firms instead of farmland

From Forbes: Hassad Food, owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, will buck the Gulf Arab trend of buying farmland abroad to secure food supplies and consider taking stakes in agricultural companies instead, its chairman said. Nasser Mohamed Al Hajri said on Tuesday that Hassad Food had an eye to profitability as well as food security, in looking at company acquisitions rather than land purchases............Full Article: Source

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