The big seed companies are also making the crops use nitrogen more efficiently so that fertilizer can be used in smaller amounts." Many families in Engaruka remain perilously close to starvation after recent droughts destroyed crops and killed 65 percent of the livestock."(Schmickle, 2013)
Europeans have taken a different stance, saying that if regulations on the GM crops were relaxed,big seed companies could take advantage of the small scale farmers, and that the companies are just there to make money, and also that GMO's are not the solution that is needed to end famine.