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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.
As they hunt for yield, a vast majority of family offices intend to maintain or increase their allocations to the asset class, according to UBS.
The head of external management at AP Fonden 2, which committed $750m to a TIAA fund in 2014, tells Agri Investor why the Swedish pension favors core farmland investments.
Bill Reiman, a managing director at the REIT, warned that some organic farmers could 'take a pretty good hit' in the next economic downturn.
The $3.35m investment with Citrum will go towards rehabilitating banana production at a farm that is now growing grapefruit and oranges.
Eric Jackson, chief executive at AMERRA-linked Pipeline Foods, tells Agri Investor that he expects to bring in at least one direct institutional investor by the end of next year.
The $8.3bn pension has changed return benchmarks and earmarked one-fifth of its 7% real assets allocation for agriculture, timber and other natural resources investments.
Agriculture demand is set to soar as Brazil’s 21 million middle-class households become increasingly health-conscious, according to the USDA.
Private capital has its eyes set on central Europe's largest economy despite legislative uncertainty and a relative lack of scale, Abris partner Monika Nachyla tells Agri Investor.
The venture firm has raised €40m from Ireland’s sovereign development fund and opened its first European office in the 'agtech island.'
The US farmland REIT paid $5.4m to purchase White Hawk Vineyard, a California winery where the company hopes to more than double production.
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