Reddit reviews Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It

I read about the Indiana case, Bowman v. Monsanto Co., and it's worth noting that the decision in the case was unanimous in favor of the plaintiff. If you can get 9 U.S. Supreme court justices from across our ideological spectrum to agree that you're in the wrong, I'm ready to take their word for it. As for the Farmer suicides, I'm ready to concede that there's lots of challenges facing farmers in poor countries, and yes, perhaps the business practices of agribusiness companies could be less ruthless, and their lot would be improved, but even the Wikipedia article you cite includes a number of factors which arguably contribute to the phenomenon:

"the most prominent being meteorological factors such as failure of monsoons, unseasonal rains and hail that can destroy crops, high debt burdens, detrimental government policies, lack of irrigation and the lowering / poisoning of ground water, high costs of seeds (seed monopolies) and high rates of interest charged by private money lenders."

That is a lot of blame to roll around. Then there's the question of the farm subsidies that we pour on our domestic farmers, which in turn depresses the price of staple crops the world over. There's a very provocatively titled, but also excellent book I'd recommend you check out, which discusses, among other things, how Western agricultural policy impoverishes poor growers in the wider world.

But neither of these cases really make the case that GMO crops are by themselves harmful. Rather the reverse, they make the case that they're so good that people who don't use them are unable to compete in the marketplace without using them. Or, at least, unable to do so without having a Whole Foods to sell their wares at much higher prices.