Much of Ghana’s rural economy is based on subsistence agriculture. Population growth, poor farming practices, deforestation, environmental degradation, and climate change have all had a negative impact on agricultural livelihoods. With correlated impact on educational outcomes, especially for girls. Youth unemployment is high in Ghana and impacts females and the uneducated disproportionately, with the disparity being greatest in remote rural areas. Often rural young women are forced into marriage in their teens. Those young women wishing to escape this fate migrate to Accra or Kumasi, thinking that life will be better for them there. To find that only the most menial of jobs, such as head porter in the market or domestic servant, are available to them. Once in the city, these young women are vulnerable to a range of social problems, including homelessness, sexual and physical abuse, and entrapment in prostitution.