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Qatar’s Food Security Strategy: Four Tracks, Not One

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer

⚡ TL;DRQatar imports the overwhelming majority of its food, has almost no arable land, and depends on desalination for water. Its food security strategy therefore runs on four tracks simultaneously: domestic production in perishable categories, strategic...

Al Meera and Qatar’s Grocery Retail Structure

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer

⚡ TL;DRQatar’s grocery market is split between a state-linked national chain with community-format stores, international hypermarket operators run by regional franchisees, and value formats serving the large migrant workforce. The market is unusually...

Baladna: How Qatar Built a Dairy Industry in a Desert

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Retail, Food & Consumer

⚡ TL;DRWhen Qatar lost its land border in 2017, fresh milk stopped arriving. Within weeks thousands of dairy cows were flown in by air freight, and within about a year the country produced enough fresh milk for its own market. Baladna went from a small farming...

Qatar’s Listed Property Sector: Models, Risks and Analysis

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Real Estate & Megaprojects

⚡ TL;DRQatar’s listed property sector is small, concentrated and dominated by a handful of companies with distinct models: a state-linked developer, a large residential landlord, and the developer of the island that pioneered foreign ownership. Together...

Qatar’s Post-World Cup Property Overhang

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Real Estate & Megaprojects

⚡ TL;DRQatar built residential and hotel capacity for a construction workforce and a one-month tournament, and both demand sources disappeared afterwards. Rents and hotel rates fell, vacancy rose, and absorption now depends on population growth from economic...

Foreign Property Ownership in Qatar: How the Rules Work

by Ekrem Duman | Jul 26, 2026 | Qatar Company Stories, Qatar Real Estate & Megaprojects

⚡ TL;DRQatar opened property ownership to foreigners in stages, beginning with a single artificial island and expanding through 2018 legislation and subsequent regulation to designated freehold and long-lease zones, with residency benefits attached to qualifying...