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The results of a survey of 203 internal migrants from northwest Ghana indicate that they experienced a push from both environmental factors like a scarcity of fertile land & unreliable rainfall, & such non-environmental factors as a lack of non-farm income opportunities. Migration is higher in areas with more natural resource scarcity as indicated by rainfall, vegetation, rural population density, & soil suitability for agriculture. It was concluded that the environmental driver of migration from northern Ghana is structural scarcity rather than degradation. Adapted from the source document.