Read this excerpt from "Famine Is a Feminist Issue: To Feed
the World, Start by Teaching Girls to Read."
How does the third sentence develop the idea that the lack of
education can lead to higher birth rates in sub-Saharan
Africa?
It lays out the theory that the main solution to
feeding people is to educate women so they have
fewer children.
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.
It suggests that because of a lack of child health
care, women give birth to more children because
most die before the age of five.
It explains that the birth rate is higher because
women are unaware of birth control and drop out
of school because they started having children.
It explains that women in most countries have two
children per woman, which achieves a birth rate at
replacement levels.
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