Empty Bowls, Broken Hearts: The Devastating Impact of Famine

This picture is of a boy from a village in Ukraine who, due to hunger, killed and ate his 3-year-old brother. His name is Illarion Nishchenko. This was an event of the Russian famine of 1921–1922.

The picture below is of a starving family, during the Madras famine of 1876.