In France’s severe drought of 1976, the country launched a nationwide straw operation, moving about 60,000 tonnes by train to farmers whose livestock were running out of feed

By mid-July 1976, much of rural France had been turned into a desolate scene. Where there should have been lush green pastures with animals grazing, there were instead brown, barren fields after months of scorching heat and little rain.

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