Paper, Forest Products & Packaging
We accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth and deliver transformational impact for food and agriculture companies and organizations by driving efficiencies, fueling growth, shaping industries, and increasing organizational effectiveness. Our proprietary tools and digital and advanced analytics capabilities, combined with extensive experience are the cornerstones of the value we bring to our clients.
HOW WE HELP CLIENTS
Agriculture Development & Food Security
We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.
Digital
We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.
Investment
We combine leading-edge investor insights honed by our private equity experts with agriculture-market insights and proprietary tools to help clients with their range of needs.
Marketing & Sales
Achieve commercial excellence through go-to-market strategy, pricing optimization, and sales execution.
Operations
We help clients improve efficiency and innovate for the future to produce quality products in a competitive way.
Organization
We help agriculture companies achieve the transformational change required to get ahead of shifting global consumer demand, evolving agricultural trends, and digital disruptions.
Strategy
We help agriculture companies navigate a future of uncertainty, stemming from evolving commodity markets, climate change, and the rise of digitization as a disruptive force.
Transformation
We create sustainable change for clients by combining proprietary tools and techniques with unmatched industry knowledge.
HOW WE HELP CLIENTS
ACRE
ACRE combines proprietary market outlooks, pricing data, and expert insights to help food companies, governments, investors, and agriculture players make better pricing, crop selection, and sales and marketing decisions.
Center for Agricultural Transformation
The McKinsey Center for Agricultural Transformation helps reduce poverty, improve climate resilience, create jobs, improve nutrition, and foster economic growth through successful agricultural transformations.
Natural Capital and Nature
Supporting clients in their transition to a net-zero and nature-positive economy.
WHAT WE DO
We advise clients across the agricultural value chain on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Investment opportunity identification
We have created a unique perspective on value-creation pools and investment opportunities in food and agriculture. We bring this perspective to our work with private-equity groups and financial investors—and to our work supporting industry players as they plan for strategic growth.
Raw-materials management
We help consumer-packaged-goods and processing companies improve performance within their raw-agricultural-materials procurement and risk-management functions.
Farm operations improvement
We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.
Fresh-food supply chain management
Rural development
We help national governments and development partners in emerging economies develop their agriculture sectors, and we work with donor agencies and foundations that support rural agriculture.