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jayjay7773
19.03.2020 • 
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Will Give Brainliest!! Read the excerpt from "Famine is a Feminist Issue: To Feed the World, Start by Teaching Girls to Read."

That's why empowering women is now one of the main solutions for feeding the world. Globablly, most countries have achieved a birth rate at replacement levels, about two children per woman. But in sub-Saharan Africa, the [birth] rate is 5.6 children per woman, largely because girls are not aware of reproductive choices and drop out of school at a young age and have kids. [Birth] rates are highest in countries where women don't have access to birth control or maternal and child health care. Babies often die before they turn five years old, and mothers overcompensate in family planning in hopes that at least a few kids will survive to adulthood. Unless the status of women changes in sub-Saharan Africa, we're going to have a lot more than one billion hungry by midcentury.

How does the last sentence refine the idea that there is a link between birth rate and the possibility of famine in sub-Saharan Africa?

A. It explains that through education, women become empowered and have fewer children that will need to be fed.

B. It lays out the theory that if there was access to child health care, more children would survive to adulthood, and women would be giving birth to fewer children.

C. It suggests that unless women become educated about reproductive choices and have fewer children, there will be too many people to feed in the future.

D. It explains that the birth rate of 5.6 children per woman will need to be changed to a birth rate of replacement levels at two children per woman.

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