11.   Essentially the plan makes Kosovo, a pocket of European countryside about the size of Connecticut with steep mountains and fertile land, an international protectorate for three years.

12.   Fertile lands in the highlands suffer from severe soil degradation, erosion and extensive deforestation.

13.   Georgia, it was discovered, was a fertile recruiting land for Texans.

14.   In South Africa and Namibia, where whites still own most of the fertile land, officials have said they will never tolerate such farm invasions.

15.   In the Golan Heights, Dayan anticipated that Israeli farmers would waste no time settling on the fertile land, making it difficult subsequently to withdraw.

16.   In Rwanda and Burundi, high population density and limited fertile land exacerbated tensions between Hutus and Tutsis.

17.   Moreover, mining causes large-scale environmental and economic damage, rendering fertile land uninhabitable and displacing populations.

18.   Mrs. Jardine pointed out that these ancient people were constantly at war, guarding their fertile farming land from intruders.

19.   Politics aside, the root of the clashes is a struggle for fertile land.

20.   Rural violence is nothing new in Chiapas or elsewhere in rural Mexico, where there is little fertile land for a burgeoning peasant population.