Dryland populations pursuing traditional land-based livelihood options are generally mobile due to a highly fluctuating resource base . Many rural dwellers in drylands also move to urban areas for seasonal work, which can have positive impacts in terms of remittances. While reasons for migration vary and can be positive or negative, oppression and human rights abuses, lack of livelihood opportunities and food insecurity tend to be among the main push factors, while emerging opportunities at the rural-urban nexus present lucrative pull factors . In a survey in Libya in 2016, 80% of migrants interviewed said they had left home because of economic hardship , which in drylands under water scarcity linked to climate change, would be exacerbated.
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