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The implication is that, as long as growth is leading to rising household incomes, particularly at the lower end of the income distribution, the pressure on food prices resulting from nutritional diversification will continue. The enduring solution to persistent demand-supply imbalances in food is to rapidly increase supply. This is exactly what the Green Revolution did.