With such a negative outcome after only 6 years of GM crops, the rest of the world is understandably cautious.
In Argentina Monsanto met farmer resistance - so it abandoned the technology fees and sold farmers GM seeds on long term credit, with payment after harvest. In 2002 Argentine farmers could not pay their seed bills and Monsanto had to confiscate farmers' property. It wrote off $2 billion in the value of the seed companies and $180 million in unpaid debts.
Brazil, which was set to go GM, decided to stay GM-free in order to tap into the lucrative market for non GM crops in the EU and Japan. In the EU, China, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Canada, Thailand, Bosnia, Equador, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique there has been dogged resistance to GM food imports and prolonged wrangling with US trade envoys. Farmers, used to saving seed, are reluctant to adopt a technology that prohibits this practice and which has the 'Terminator' gene in reserve to enforce dependency on annual seed purchase. The US government is expending diplomatic capital in trying to force GM crops into export markets. Recipient nations reject GM food, even as food aid through the World Food Programme.
