International: The Madagascar model | The Economist
A real emerging trend for the next decade
"This drama showed the characteristics of conflicts over scarcity. They do not usually involve pitched battles. Rather, they are episodes of friction in which the resource in question adds to tension but is not the sole source of it. Other examples include China’s crackdown on the water tower of the world, Tibet (ten of Asia’s largest rivers have their source in the Tibetan plateau); Russia and Canada beefing up their presence in the Arctic as the icy waters become navigable; and the conflict between Darfuri tribes, the Sudanese government and others in western Sudan, where rainfall has dropped by up to a third in 40 years"
A real emerging trend for the next decade
"This drama showed the characteristics of conflicts over scarcity. They do not usually involve pitched battles. Rather, they are episodes of friction in which the resource in question adds to tension but is not the sole source of it. Other examples include China’s crackdown on the water tower of the world, Tibet (ten of Asia’s largest rivers have their source in the Tibetan plateau); Russia and Canada beefing up their presence in the Arctic as the icy waters become navigable; and the conflict between Darfuri tribes, the Sudanese government and others in western Sudan, where rainfall has dropped by up to a third in 40 years"
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