  We review recent attempts to try to combine global issues of string
compactifications, like moduli stabilisation, with local issues, like
semi-realistic D-brane constructions. We list the main problems encountered,
and outline a possible solution which allows globally consistent embeddings of
chiral models. We also argue that this stabilisation mechanism leads to an
axiverse. We finally illustrate our general claims in a concrete example where
the Calabi-Yau manifold is explicitly described by toric geometry.
