Stanley Wood is a senior research fellow of the Environment and Production Technology Division 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, leading a project evaluating the impacts of agricultural research in the LAC region. Since then, he has been based at IFPRI headquarters, leading multiple initiatives enhancing the role of spatial analysis in a policy context. A Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of London, and Masters degrees in Agricultural Development and in Water Resources Development, he has 35 years of experience in natural resource, land use, and agricultural systems analysis and modelling. Prior to joining IFPRI Stanley worked as an independent consultant to multilateral and bilateral development organizations living and working in Asia and Africa, and earlier as a hydrologist then water resour