Biography

Ralph Wood has worked all over the world as a farm manager and agricultural consultant, especially on international development projects and ADRA. After completing his MPH, he spent three years working as a teacher and assistant farm manager in Nebraska at Platte Valley Academy and Hayes Center High School. He then moved to Chad, Africa to work for two years as Assistant Director of an ADRA Irrigation Project for which he also served as an agronomist and canal building engineer. Upon returning to the U.S., Ralph took over as the Chairman of the Department of Agriculture at Pacific Union College in 1979 and as Dean of the School of Agronomy at Dominican Adventist University in the Dominican Republic in 1985. He continued consulting on ADRA projects in Ghana, Mozambique, and Azerbaijan while working as the Supervisor and Manager of Twixwood Nursery, and finally joined the Andrews Agriculture Faculty in 1999. When he's not busy teaching, he enjoys photography and working on community projects such as Habitat for Humanity.