When climate change and growing populations combine forces, pastoralists have a harder and harder time finding viable grazing places their livestock. This is due to erratic rain patterns as well as farming areas encroaching on former grazing grounds. These all too common conflicts may be taking a new turn in the not too distant future.

The issue of private property and land ownership is a big area in need of intervention for the purposes of national development.

“In the face of modernity; there is an obvious clash between the communities and the modern land use laws. On one hand, West Africa is fast becoming an ‘urban region’ with the boundaries between the ‘rurality’ and ‘urbanity’ overlapping and creating ‘periurban’ areas. Also, rich resources such as crude oil, diamond and gold are being discovered deep in the rural areas, thus necessitating the adoption of the statutory system even in the rural areas.

In large part due to the simple lack of "Rule of Law" in Latin American countries, as well as to the minority status of indigenous people and their proximity to unexploited natural resources, their rights are being ignored by state and market actors alike. This is despite the ratification of ILO Convention 169 by the majority of South American countries.

As rural indigenous populations are being displaced by large-scale mono-culture agriculture in Bangladesh, the country can expect a drop in their literacy rates:

The systematic displacement of indigenous people in Bangladesh due to lack of legal recognition of their land rights will lead to further strife in the coming decade:

"Indigenous tribal groups in Bangladesh are slowly being displaced from their traditional land, which will not only lead to rise in poverty among the ethnic tribal groups but could result in the rise of ethnic conflicts in the coming years.

Gonzalo Alcalde notes that in the past year, public discussions of land concentration in Latin America are becoming increasingly common, with possible policy implications in the near future: