In the Malthusian model, an improvement in the technology of growing foods is likely to:

A) have no effect on the equilibrium size of the population and increase the equilibrium level of consumption per worker
B) increase the equilibrium size of the population and decrease the equilibrium level of consumption per worker.
C) increase the equilibrium size of the population and have no effect on the equilibrium level of consumption per worker.
D) increase the equilibrium size of the population and increase the equilibrium level of consumption per worker.