Limited available land

Land scarcity is a recurrent theme in low-level and persistent conflicts around the world. Scarcity can result from land degradation, unequal distribution of land, overpopulation, or some combinations of these. Lack of access to productive agricultural lands combines with population growth to encourage migration to steep hillsides. These hillsides are easily eroded, and after a few years fail to produce enough to support the migrants. The result is deepened poverty which then helps to fuel violence.

1. It is not out of place to remark here on a problem which exists in quite a number of countries, namely, a gross disproportion between land and population. In some countries arable land abounds, but there is a scarcity of population; whereas in other countries the position is reversed: the population is large, arable land scarce. (Papal Encyclical, Mater et Magistra, 15 May 1961).

1. Unrecognized opportunities
2. Shortage of natural resources

1. Unbridled competition for land
2. Unavailability of farming land
3. Unassigned public land
4. Shortage of urban land
5. Shortage of public space for relaxation
6. Shortage of land for cemeteries
7. Scarcity of residential land
8. Limited family land
9. Limited availability of land for low-income and disadvantaged groups
10. Disappearance of common land
11. Alienation of land through acquisition by foreigners

1. Factory farming
2. Unattractive development sites
3. Threatened monuments and historic sites
4. Restricted land choices
5. Housing shortage
6. Difficult land acquisition

1. Rising sea level
2. Proliferation of second homes
3. Ownership as a basis for land allocation
4. Overdevelopment of golf courses
5. Landscape disfigurement from open-cast mining
6. Land pollution
7. Land misuse
8. Increasing proportion of land surface devoted to urbanization
9. Inadequate land drainage
10. Hazardous remnants of war
11. Expropriation of land from indigenous populations
12. Exploitation of land for the burial of the dead
13. Excessive land usage by transport systems
14. Excessive land usage
15. Defective land use planning
16. Cumbersome land system

1. Shortage of waste landfill sites

1. Inadequate care of community space

1. Uncovering purchasable land
2. Relieving scarcity of land
3. Providing sufficient land space
4. Providing prime land
5. Limiting availability of land
6. Increasing available land
7. Improving accessibility of land resources
8. Doing without adequate land space

1. Limitedness
2. Shortage
3. Scarcity
4. Unknowable
5. Minimum
6. Unavailability
7. Lack