State Forest Service — Assistant Conservator of Forests (state PSC exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions (e.g. TNPSC, MPPSC, UPPSC, HPPSC, KPSC, MPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersForestry with and for people: social and farm forestry, joint and community forest management, forest-dependent and tribal communities, gender and livelihoods.
In the exams: IFoS Forestry Paper I Section B (agroforestry, social forestry, JFM and tribal realities); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (social, farm, community forestry; JFM; tribology; shifting cultivation; taungya); ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 5
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Community & Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management & Forest Peoples. Difficulty: 7 easy, 17 medium, 4 hard.
| Joint and collaborative forest management: institutions, benefit sharing | 5 | |
| History of people's participation in forestry | 4 | |
| Indigenous, tribal and forest-dependent communities: social structure and livelihoods | 4 | |
| Conflict management in forest use | 4 | |
| Forest rights and tenure security | 3 | |
| Participatory rural appraisal and microplanning | 3 | |
| Social, farm, extension and community forestry: concepts | 2 | |
| Gender in forestry | 2 | |
| Shifting cultivation and taungya | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The economist credited with using the term 'social forestry' in 1968 was:
C. Jack Westoby
At the Commonwealth Forestry Conference in New Delhi.
The most successful component of 1980s social forestry projects, by trees planted, was:
B. Farm forestry
Especially eucalyptus on private land.
A common shift in the forest policies of many countries since the 1980s has been to give priority to:
D. Local people's needs and participation
Reforms in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America moved from industrial and revenue goals towards local needs and participation, as in India's 1988 policy and Nepal's 1993 Act.
The movement of rubber tappers led by Chico Mendes in Brazil led to the creation of:
D. Extractive reserves
Extractive reserves, first created in 1990, secure land for rubber tappers and other extractivists.
Which product is a major source of forest income for women in the West African savanna?
B. Shea nuts and butter
Women collect shea nuts and process them into butter, often in cooperatives. Tendu is South Asian, Brazil nuts Amazonian and maple syrup North American.
Which 1992 decision of Australia's High Court first recognised native title to land?
B. Mabo
Mabo (1992) recognised native title. Wik (1996) and Yorta Yorta (2002) were later Australian cases; Delgamuukw (1997) is Canadian.
Among the first villages to receive community forest resource rights and sell bamboo is:
A. Mendha-Lekha
In Gadchiroli, Maharashtra.
Where CFR rights are recognised, the forest department's role shifts mainly towards:
A. Support and facilitation
Gram sabhas manage CFRs.
Walking across a village landscape with residents to record land use and problems is a:
C. Transect walk
A transect walk is a core PRA tool.
A grazing conflict between a village and the forest department might be resolved by an interest-based option such as:
B. Rotational closure
Meets both the department's and villagers' needs.
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