Unofficial estimates vary, but scholars have estimated the number of famine victims to be between 20 and 43 million.

UN food aid brought in to help famine victims.

Older models concentrated simply on the mortality of famine victims.

Close to 8 million people became famine victims during the drought of 1984, and over 1 million died.

The huge bag of the man's paunch and body were shrunken-he could have been a famine victim.

If food isn't eventually obtained, famine victims will waste away, a process that is often accelerated by illness.

Because of illnesses I was as thin as a famine victim, with just enough muscle to get me from here to there.

A burial here last week was more than a numb farewell to another famine victim.

But their food wasn't reaching famine victims in the rebellious South anyway.

She turned the pages, glancing at the photographs of famine victims in the Philippines.