Further funding cuts to Brazilian science and technology institutions have “strangled” essential research into natural disasters and international projects, says a group of scientists.
Nineteen leaders of ministry of science, technology, innovation and communications research centres issued a joint warning on 11 July that huge cuts to S&T could “threaten [the] existence” of research bodies.
Cumulative cuts since 2014 have seen a 44 per cent cut in federal S&T research programme budgets, which now stand at 2.8 billion reais (€772 million).
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