A demonstrator holds an empty food container that reads "Hunger" during the Grito dos Excluidos (Cry of the Excluded) in front of the Se Cathedral on the Brazilian Independence Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil September 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, sorts through food that has been thrown out to find edible products to cook with, at the CEASA supply centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 29, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, her husband, Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, and their daughter, Gabriela, 5, pose for a picture in the room where they live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

River dwellings known as palafitte or "Palafita" are seen in Recife, Brazil, September 13, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Elvira de Fatima Saraiva, 57, prepares dinner, the family's only meal of the day, in Porto Alegre, Brasil, September 1 2022. Elvira, a widow, is responsible for a family of 22 people, including six children, four daughters-in-law and 12 grandchildren. She is only able to prepare one meal a day, and feeds the family in the evening so the "children don't go to bed hungry" she said. REUTERS/Diego Vara SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, eats a lunch of rice, beans and egg in her family's house, in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, (C) sorts through food that has been thrown out to find edible products to cook with at the CEASA supply centre, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 29, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, pushes a buggy containing fruit and vegetables donated by merchants at the CEASA supply centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 30, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A person scavenges through thrown away food on a container to find eatable products at the supply centre (CEASA), in Rio de Janeiro, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, (2nd R) his wife, Carla Marquez, 36, (C) who is six months pregnant, and their daughter Gabriela, 5, (2nd L) eat a meal they cooked on a wood fire in the street in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 16, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, walks with her children to fetch water, near their home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, September 1, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, holds a bowl containing rice, beans and eggs, a meal that she and the husband Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, cooked on a fire in the street, in Sao Paulo, Brazil September 16, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, and Yago Silva de Souza, 2, eat a lunch of rice, beans and egg at their family's house in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

A view of the Brasilia Teimosa favela is seen beneath the residential buildings of the Boa Viagem neighbourhood in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Commercial buildings are seen looming above river dwellings known as palafitte or "Palafita" in Recife, Brazil, September 13, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, (C) sorts through food that has been thrown out to find edible products to cook with at the CEASA supply centre, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 29, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Elvira de Fatima Saraiva, 57, (2nd L) accompanied by her granddaughter Eduarda Saraiva, 10, (L), grandson, Kauan Maguatine Saraiva Ribeiro, 11, (C) and her two sons Yuri Saraiva, 21, (2nd R) and Marcio Saraiva, 34, (R) collect garbage in the streets of the City, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 1 2022. Elvira, a widow, is responsible for a family of 22 people, including six children, four daughters-in-law and 12 grandchildren. She is only able to prepare one meal a day, and feeds the family in the evening so the "children don't go to bed hungry" she said. REUTERS/Diego Vara SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Izabela dos Santos, 2, eats a meal made from food her mother Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, found in a garbage container, at their home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 21, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A person scavenges through thrown away food on a container to find eatable products at the supply centre (CEASA), in Rio de Janeiro, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, gives food to a homeless man in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A person scavenges through thrown away food on a container to find eatable products at the supply centre (CEASA), in Rio de Janeiro, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, (L) and Rafael Silva de Souza, 9, (R) eat a lunch of rice, beans and egg in their family's house, in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Luciana Messias dos Santos 29, stands in front her home with her son, in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, carries a box of fruit and vegetables donated by merchants at the CEASA supply centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 30, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A person scavenges through thrown away food on a container to find eatable products at the supply centre (CEASA), in Rio de Janeiro, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Maria Jose holds her lunch, a bowl of rice, in front of her house in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 13, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

A boy and girl swing from a tree on a tire under a polluted channel of water and sewage in Recife, Brazil September 13, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, and her daughter Gabriela, 5, sit in the doorway of the room where they live, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Thawanny Silva de Souza, 6, drinks water in front of the fridge, after lunch in her family's house, in the Arco Iris favela in Recife, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla dos Santos Feliciano, 38, cooks a meal at her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 21, 2022. Feliciano says she survives picking fruit and vegetables from dumpsters outside the municipal market. "Welfare or no welfare makes no difference. I vote for Lula. I will die a Lula supporter," she said. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. A person scavenges through thrown away food on a container to find eatable products at the supply centre (CEASA), in Rio de Janeiro, August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "Hunger" in front of the Se Cathedral during the Grito dos Excluidos (Cry of the Excluded) on the Brazilian Independence Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil September 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, stands with her son, as she cooks using firewood outside her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Luciana Messias dos Santos 29, feeds her 10-month-old baby as he sits on the lap of her husband Felipe dos Santos, 26, in their home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, September 1, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Elvira de Fatima Saraiva, 57 (L) and her sons Marcio, 34, (C) and Yuri, 21, (R) collect garbage in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 1, 2022. Elvira, a widow, is responsible for a family of 22 people, including six children, four daughters-in-law and 12 grandchildren. She is only able to prepare one meal a day, and feeds the family in the evening so the "children don't go to bed hungry" she said. REUTERS/Diego Vara SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Gabriela, 5, plays in the room she lives in with her mother, Carla Marquez, 36 and father, Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 11, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, cooks using firewood outside her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, shows her daughter, Gabriela, 5, ultrasound images in the room where they live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 15, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, cries as she talks about gas and food prices in the room where she and her family live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 11, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

A child walks next a shack on squatted land in front of the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, August 29, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Carla Marquez, 36, who is six months pregnant, (C) burns wood on the street to cook a meal for her husband, Carlos Henrique Mendes, 25, (L) and their daughter, Gabriela, 5, outside their home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 16, 2022. Marquez and her family live in a room paid for by a church and struggle to feed their daughter. "We haven't bought food in ages. Prices are absurdly high. I've nothing to give her," she said in tears. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Lucas Saraiva, 27, Kellen Saraiva, 9, Maria Saraiva, 2, and Eduarda Saraiva, 10, eat dinner, their only meal of the day, at home in in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 1, 2022. Rampant inflation and fallout from the pandemic have pushed food insecurity in Brazil to levels nearly unrecognizable a decade ago. One in three Brazilians say they have struggled recently to feed their families. REUTERS /Diego Vara SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, poses for a picture in front of her empty fridge at her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, September 1, 2022. "People say Bolsonaro is helping. But he gives and then takes it away. It was much better with Lula," said Luciana. In her wooden shack in Estrutural, Brasilia's largest favela, she has had to adapt her stove to cook with wood as fuel because gas is too expensive. REUTERS/Adriano Machado SEARCH "BRAZIL ELECTION HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.