Field Trials

GM crops represent an economic liability given the declining prospects of GM agricultural products in the world market. Greenpeace assists local groups in opposing field trials by directly confronting life sciences and seed companies like Monsanto, Cargill, Pioneer, and a few others. It also provides technical and information support to farmers and communities being targeted for field trials.

Greenpeace believes GE will neither feed the world nor solve the complex problems of poverty and malnutrition. Instead of a GE future controlled and dominated by multinationals, Greenpeace promotes an alternative organic vision for agriculture which does not compromise the integrity of the ecosystem, human health, and the rights of farmers.

Networking and cooperation with anti-GM forces in the region help sustain local movements for GE free zones. Aside from the usual environmental and farmers sectors, Greenpeace also reaches out to religious institutions, women's groups, student movements, health professionals, restaurateurs and many others.

In Southeast Asia, Greenpeace emphasizes the fact that the same entities promoting the release of GM seeds in the region represent the same interests responsible for stealing the region's genetic resources, and forcing patent protection on those stolen resources for exclusive profit. These are also the same forces which brought us chemical intensive agriculture, now widely acknowledged for declining farm productivity and damaged ecosystems.