TY - BOOK AU - Alvarez-Castillo, Fatima. TI - Introductory paper to the gender report PY - 2009/// KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Bioethics KW - Case studies N1 - General Education N2 - While research using biological resources could produce new drugs and technologies for health conditions in developing countries, it is the market ( that is mostly concentrated in western industrial countries) and attractive return on invesment which drive the increasing number of corporate-funding research, aimed to develop commercial products from biological materials that include cosmetics, health foods, and medicines. the rapidly expanding global biotechnology industry was valued in the year 2000 at US ER -