Stanley Wood is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. He joined IFPRI in 1995 and until 1997 was outposted to the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia working on impact assessment studies for regional agricultural research. Since then he has been based at IFPRI headquarters, where he led IFPRI's research on spatial analysis in a policy context. Wood is a co-principal investigator, HarvestChoice. HarvestChoice is a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that generates knowledge products to help guide strategic investments in improving the productivity and profitability of cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Before joining IFPRI, Wood served as an independent consultant to multilateral and bilateral development organizations on natural resource, land use and agricultural systems modeling, based in Libya, Italy and Indonesia. A British citizen, Wood earned his M.Sc. in water resources development from the University of Birmingham, and his M.Sc. in agricultural development from the University of London. Wood received his PhD in Economics, also with the University of London.

• Spatial Patterns and Processes in Development
• Agricultural Science and Technology Policy
• HarvestChoice
  
  Joint project with the Center for International Science and Technology Practice and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP), University of Minnesota

• Enhancing the Role of Spatial Analysis in Strategic Impact Assessment: Improving Data Resolution for Regional Studies
  Wood, Stanley and Jordan Chamberlin. In "Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research: Theory and Evidence," a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 42, No. 2. 2003.
• Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Agroecosystems
  Wood, Stanley, Kate Sebastian, and Sara J. Scherr. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute and World Resources International. 2001.
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• From science to technology adoption: the role of policy research in improving natural resource management
  Hazell, P. B. R. and Stanley Wood. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 82: 385-393. 2000.
• Agroecological aspects of evaluating agricultural R&D
  ood, Stanley and Philip G. Pardey. Agricultural Systems 57(1): 13-41. 1998.