Such technologies may relate to energy, transportation, preservation and storage, processing and construction, etc. This means that we need to look at processes that protect the access rights of the poor to these resources. Organising poor households for the sustainable use of NTFPs by forming Users' Groups may be one method of ensuring better access for the poor. Using some of the royalties derived from specific NTFPs, such as medicinal plants from specific areas, for local community development and conservation work, which is being tried with the tourism returns in Protected or Conservation Areas in Nepal at present , may be another method. A rational royalty system, also tied to the resource situation, is needed for this.
Women tend to be systematically displaced from high value-added activities.
However, there are some areas in which women's roles could be enhanced. The potential of specific NTFPs to contribute to women's income within households needs to be especially analysed and explored. These NTFPs need to be identified and their market potential assessed and promoted at farmer's level. Cultivation can be encouraged in the case of unmanaged and threatened species. In Nepal it is believed that cultivation of high-altitude medicinal and aromatic plants, in particular, assures sustainable yield harvests.