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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Contesting the Agro"=forestry Space: Land, Livelihoods and Conflict in Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun State, Nigeria\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Olugbenga Samuel Falase, University of Ibadan, Sociology, No 14 Property Development Corporation Estate General Gas Akobo, 23402~Ibadan, Nigeria, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{flash4real@yahoo.co.uk}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Olugbenga Samuel Falase}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{University of Ibadan, Sociology, Nigeria}}}
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The recent development in the use and management of natural resources has generated intense debates that are of paramount importance to scholars and policymakers. While debates on agro"=forestry interactions mainly present agriculture as cataclysm, rather than as catalysis, for forest development, the shrinking spaces and reliance on forest lands, continues to make agriculture and forestry intricately interdependent in many communities. In forest"=dependent communities, where agro"=forestry is central to economic life, conflict has become a major part of survival and local social structure. The inability of previous researches to provide adequate responses and solutions to these essentials issues in the natural resource discourse, has posed a serious threat to the overall goals of forest sustainability. Thus, this research paper aims to provide ex"=ante sociological assessments of the relationship between agricultural and forest sectors in the context of rural development. The fundamental questions raised are --- how does the problem of land resource accessibility and use culminates to conflict in agro"=forestry space? What processes shape conflict potentialities and in what ways do resulting conflicts affect sustainable rural development? 



The study adopts qualitative methodology and gathers data through key"=informants and in"=depth interviews, and focus group discussion in Omo forest reserve, Ogun state, Nigeria. 



Findings show that the contestation for land and/or space in the reserve has sprung up several glitches in the Global South, particularly, Nigeria and has fuelled conflicts and clashes, which have implications for rural development and local survival. With the pressured population of farmers, and the diminishing role of agriculture in the reserve, there has been an increased rate of poverty, a shortage in the supply of food, and a decline in the rural people's standard of living. 



The study concludes that in as much as there is a symbiotic relationship between agriculture and forestry, there is always a tussle for space and land by the agricultural actors for survival and this often birth conflicts and insecurity in the reserve, which eventually, jeopardises rural and forest development. A new form of synergy that will properly integrate agro"=forestry practices to promote rural and forest development must be developed.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agro"=forestry, Conflicts, Nigeria, Resource Management, Rural and Forest Development
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