--- --- # How to Cut the Global Food Gap In Half by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 16, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 16, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how we could cut the global food gap in half.**](http://www.scidev.net/global/agriculture/news/irrigation-backed-food-gap-food-security.html) By Paula Park in SciDev **2\.** [**Making it easier to vote hasn’t actually boosted turnout. Maybe we should try getting people interested in politics**](http://ssir.org/articles/entry/making%5Fvoting%5Feasier%5Fdoesnt%5Fincrease%5Fturnout) By Adam Berinsky in the Stanford Social Innovation Review **3\.** [**In Egypt, the U.S. has chosen stability over democracy.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dalia-f-fahmy-phd/usegypt-relations-and-the%5Fb%5F9223156.html) By Dalia F. Fahmy in Huffington Post **4\.** [**Why does the U.S. resist this simple tactic to make make subways better?**](http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2016/02/subways%5Fshould%5Fhave%5Fopen%5Fgangway%5Fcars%5Fwhy%5Fdoes%5Fthe%5Fu%5Fs%5Fresist%5Fit.html) By Henry Grabar in Slate **5\.** [**Most Americans believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. Here’s why.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-america-is-putting-itself-back-together/426882/) By James Fallows in the Atlantic  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Cut the Global Food Gap In Half ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4225668/cut-global-food-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4225668/cut-global-food-gap/"},"headline":"How to Cut the Global Food Gap In Half","datePublished":"2016-02-16T17:01:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:24.357Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4225668/cut-global-food-gap/","keywords":["Innovation","Transportation","Voting","Water","Hunger","Egypt"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4225668/cut-global-food-gap/","name":"How to Cut the Global Food Gap In Half"}}]}] ```