It will promote trade, and sometimes they can become allies.
The man in the cartoon is looking at what seems to be a news report about the drought in Ethiopia. The man is sitting down to watch the television. The man doesn’t care for the news report as can be seen by his reaction “just another darn repeat”. I believe the cartoonist thinks that the people in the west don’t care about what’s going on in Ethiopia.
It would be mainly that "<span>D. More than one person wishes to control the same piece of land" that generally </span>has been the main cause of land grant disputes over time, since land is of course limited and very valuable.