Weaving the Net

The paper examines the 2008 food crisis and subsequent shocks to understand how vulnerable households in developing countries respond to complex crises. It argues that because household-level impacts manifest similarly regardless of the crisis's origin, there is an opportunity to develop robust, broad-spectrum policy responses.

• Impacts at the household level tend to occur in similar patterns regardless of what caused the crisis, which suggests that a single, robust policy response could be effective across various types of crises.
• The 2008 food price increase was driven by complex causality, with climate variability serving as a significant trigger.
• Vulnerable groups in developing countries face severe hardship from complex crises that produce unpredictable cascading impacts across time and space, as seen during the 2008 food crisis, the 2009 financial meltdown, and the 2011-12 food price spikes.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Weaving the Net. https://www.wri.org/research/weaving-net

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Weaving the Net. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/weaving-net.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=World Resources Institute |title=Weaving the Net |url=https://www.wri.org/research/weaving-net |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendweaving, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Weaving the Net}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/weaving-net}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }