According to data from the 2nd National Survey on Food Insecurity released in June, an estimated 30·7% of Brazilians are experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity due to a combination of the pandemic, increasing unemployment, weakening of social programmes, and dismantling of public welfare policies. The challenges are huge, but his government has already announced an ambitious new progressive tax plan aimed at raising trillions of dollars for anti-poverty and social welfare programmes. For more on food poverty in Brazil see https://olheparaafome.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Relatorio-II-VIGISAN-2022.pdf For more on how Brazilian scientists and science have been undermined see Correspondence Lancet 2021; 397: 373–74 and Correspondence Lancet 2022; 399: 23–24 For more on Columbia's tax programme see https://www.ft.com/content/35d3eae3-5166-42f6-b0b0-a66c6c...

10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01662-2