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Chris Janiec

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.
Investments made by its ag fund – which seeks opportunities created by dislocation, while continuing to distance itself from a ‘special situations’ tag – will be the most telling factor in the strategy’s objectives.
EXEO partner Izak Strauss says firms like Masimong Group Holdings that invest to promote black empowerment in South Africa are increasingly interested in agriculture.
TSSP has teamed up with SLM Partners and Midwestern BioAg on a fund that will pursue opportunities created by events such as the introduction of SGMA.
A market source says the consultants’ expectations of no new ag commitments in the coming year reflects, in part, the influence of recent volatility in permanent crops.
American Forest Management CEO Brent Keefer says a growing number of TIMO clients are interested in services like mitigation banking, carbon accounting and sequestration analysis.
CEO Michael Gilbert said the agtech firm's profit-making status puts it in a position to acquire companies that will 'close the loop on risk mitigation and decision-making.'
Firm partner Adam Oliver says institutional farmland managers’ efforts to broaden portfolios and diversify risk is helping create interest in the country.
The firm’s investor base includes LPs ‘that have distribution channels outside of North America that are looking for assets like this’ says COO Brent Drever.
Managing partner Nick Dilks said the size of EIP’s Fund IV meant larger LPs could make commitments, which helped the firm hit its hard-cap.
Curtis Buono and Jeremy Darner said they expect to focus largely on helping institutional investors deploy funds in California farmland markets increasingly shaped by the SGMA.
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