--- title: Five Best: How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People description: This is how China feeds 1.4 billion people, what does a more humane drug policy look like and more. canonical: https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-06T16:00:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:56.981Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 6, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 6, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is how China feeds 1.4 billion people.**](http://chinapower.csis.org/china-food-security/) By ChinaPower from the _Center for Strategic and International Studies_ **2\.** [**What does a more humane drug policy look like?**](http://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/the-war-on-drugs-has-failed-what-s-next/) By Altaf Rahamatulla at the _Ford Foundation_ **3\.** [**Climate change might leave a bad taste in your mouth. Literally.**](https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-04-03/climate-change-might-leave-bad-taste-your-mouth-literally) By Julia Franz in _Science Friday from PRI_ **4\.** [**This is why it’s so important for the U.S. Census to get information on LGBT Americans.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/we-need-good-data-lgbt-americans-craft-inclusive-policy) By Daniel Kuehn at the _Urban Institute_ **5\.** [**Nuclear power is worth saving. Here’s why.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/nuclear-power-is-worth-saving) By the Editors at _Bloomberg View_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/"},"headline":"How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People","datePublished":"2017-04-06T16:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:56.981Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Food","climate change","Drugs","LGBT Issues"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4728542/how-china-feeds-1-4-billion-people/","name":"How China Feeds 1.4 Billion People"}}]}] ```