Who are we?
The McKinsey Center for Agricultural Transformation draws together the firm’s expertise in agriculture, international development, and food security. The center has flexibility in developing different engagement models with partners, including performance-based models and longer-term relationships. At its core, the Center is focused on accelerating agricultural transformations and improving food security for a range of public-, private-, and social-sector entities.
Because the Center leverages McKinsey’s nuanced understanding of the private sector, deep expertise across diverse fields, and world-class analytics to improve decision making in agricultural transformations, we make a distinctive partner for governments, donors, companies, and civil society—enabling more effective and efficient use of resources to transform rural economies at the national and state levels as well as within industry sectors.
Why agricultural transformation?
Most industrialized nations began their economic ascent with an agricultural transformation. When rural economies develop, the changes can be profound. In just 11 years, for example, Vietnam reduced its poverty rate from 58 percent to 19 percent; in one generation, Indonesia nearly tripled its GDP. An agricultural transformation holds the potential to bring economic growth, more jobs, poverty reduction, climate resilience, reduced malnutrition, and women’s economic empowerment.
But transformations are complex, and many stall along the way. Success depends on some key areas, including work across public and private sectors, talented and empowered leaders, good institutions to support change, evidence-based policy making, and smart investments. Our mission is to employ the tools and assets of McKinsey to work with partners diagnosing challenges and creating solutions that will accelerate agricultural transformation.
