Indian Forest Service Examination (IFoS) — Forestry optional · India · Union Public Service Commission
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 Indian Forest Service Examination spread across the units of Community & Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management & Forest Peoples. Difficulty: 10 easy, 27 medium, 14 hard.
| History of people's participation in forestry | 8 | |
| Forest rights and tenure security | 7 | |
| Conflict management in forest use | 7 | |
| Social, farm, extension and community forestry: concepts | 6 | |
| Indigenous, tribal and forest-dependent communities: social structure and livelihoods | 6 | |
| Joint and collaborative forest management: institutions, benefit sharing | 5 | |
| Shifting cultivation and taungya | 4 | |
| Gender in forestry | 4 | |
| Community forestry models worldwide (e.g. Nepal, Mexico, the Philippines, Tanzania) | 2 | |
| Participatory rural appraisal and microplanning | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The most successful component of 1980s social forestry projects, by trees planted, was:
B. Farm forestry
Especially eucalyptus on private land.
A criticism of eucalyptus farm forestry in the 1980s was that it:
C. Served markets more than local needs
Some richer farmers converted cropland, reducing employment.
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.
Mexican community forestry is unusual mainly because:
B. Ejido and community ownership
Agrarian reform gave ejidos and communities ownership of much forest land, and many run their own timber enterprises.
Tanzania's Forest Act of 2002 provides for:
A. Joint and village-level community management
The Act combines joint forest management of central and local government reserves with community-based management of village land forest reserves.
ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples was adopted in:
A. 1989
ILO 169 (1989) replaced the integrationist ILO 107 of 1957. UNDRIP dates from 2007 and the CBD from 1992.
Where CFR rights are recognised, the forest department's role shifts mainly towards:
A. Support and facilitation
Gram sabhas manage CFRs.
Bina Agarwal found better forest outcomes where women in executive committees reached roughly:
C. A quarter to a third
A critical mass of women improved outcomes.
In the Thomas-Kilmann model, high assertiveness with high cooperativeness is:
D. Collaborating
Competing is assertive and uncooperative.
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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