Arab News | 17 September 2014
Secretary General of the Federation of GCC Chambers (FGCCC) Abdulrahim Hasan Naqi has stressed the need to expand the role of sovereign funds to have investments in agro, food, animal, and mining areas.  Speaking at an investment forum on food security and mining resources in Khartoum, Sudan, Naqi called for boosting global halal trade availing the number of Muslims whose population is exceeding 1.7 billion, especially when the Islamic world is importing halal products from outside the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries.  – See more at: http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/23953#sthash.BjksoeUG.dpuf

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