The "food mountains" grow--in some areas. And the land is parched in others where there is far too little food. In some cases the GM crops are designed to try to deal with dietary deficits--I think in the last year or two a type of "yellow rice" has turned up that has a high vitamin E level. This is supposed to help in places where there is a dietary shortage of this vitamin. But too often these big seed producers pull their genetic engineering hat tricks to try to manipulate the seed and marketplace in places where the farmers live on the extreme margins and simply can't afford to buy new seed each year.

Those high production areas will pay (or are paying) for those high-yield crops. Depeted soil, heavy dependence on chemical fertilizers, loss of topsoil.

SRS