Food Tank Weekly Roundup: European Heatwave Deaths, SNAP Enrollment Declines, and Regenerative Agriculture Growth
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Elena Seeley
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This weekly news roundup from Food Tank covers three major stories: (1) Europe's extreme heatwave causing at least 1,300 excess deaths and record-breaking temperatures across Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic; (2) declining SNAP enrollment with millions of people removed from the program; and (3) emerging frameworks to scale regenerative agriculture. The article aggregates multiple news items into a digest format.
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Germany recorded record-breaking temperatures of 41.7 °C — over 107 °F.
It was so hot that an event focused on the impacts of extreme heat in the UK had to be cancelled because temperatures were too high.
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