Excerpt from a Seattle Times article about the Gates/Rockefeller charities

Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, stated that many of the world's poorest nations have an adequate food supply. "People are hungry because they are poor. They can't afford to buy all this food that is being produced," he said.

Even some places considered green revolution success stories are having problems now. Holt-Gimenez said. Suicide rates, he said, have soared for Indian farmers in Punjab who have seen their fertilizer debts soar at the same time their soil productivity is diminishing.

"Groups that have been following hunger and food production all these years are very skeptical of technological fixes," he said.