1.   Behind the conflicts is a complex fabric of generations-old hostilities, including disputes over scarce farming land and religious feuds between Catholics and Protestants.

2.   Scarce land coupled with high demand can be costly.

3.   With scarce land and arduous permitting processes, urban districts curb the competitive threat posed by new buildings.

4.   Apart from security, Rwandan authorities say the grouping of people would ease the pressure of a rapidly growing population on increasingly scarce land.

5.   Brown said scarce land and water, lower crop yields and growing competition from other crops are adding to the seriousness of the grain problem.

6.   Conflicts over scarce grazing land and access to water in arid northeastern Kenya are not uncommon among the pastoralist people who live there.

7.   In a bid by this tiny island nation to free up scarce land, Singapore is building an underground armory for storage of its bombs, missiles and bullets.

8.   Some analysts say divisions between the evangelicals and traditionalists are rooted in economic disputes and competition for scarce land in the poor, densely populated countryside.

9.   He added that Taiwan had developed rapidly despite inadequate resources, scarce land and military threats from its long-time rival China.

10.   In the landlocked rice and vegetable farming region, the population is so high and arable land so scarce that most families have only enough land to feed themselves.