It would have been far better if you had shared some options, because that development could lead to many things. Anyway, I bet I know what are you talking about, and according to this event, the main point of gasohol dev is that <span>Brazil no longer has to grow fuel. I am pretty sure you have such option in your list, in any case it will help you.</span>
Tectonic plates, although rigid, also move. And they move in rebound, because of the tremendous heat that comes out of the interior of our planet, which burns at 6.7500º C, almost like the sun. This fiery heat moves the mantle and consequently expands into the lithosphere and Earth's crust.
Most parts of Russia : Are far from bodies of water.
Most of its region is continental.
This often cause major crisis in finding enough clean water to fulfill the people's needs.
Sex ratio is the difference between males and females in a population. In China, sex ratio is an issue because of how favored males are. There is cases of femicide and girls are usually put up for adoption leading to an unbalanced sex ratio.
I would say that the main problem affecting North Africa and SW Asia would most likely be water or the scarcity of it assuming that North Africa would include places like the Sahara Desert and also the south of India which I believe is quite arid..