[2] In response, the government initiated the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), a department that aimed to reduce the famine severity and coordinate international assistance.

[3] The famine led to mobilisation of pastoralists and nomads in general, while allowing feudal landlords to force tenants to pay high rents while escorting their retinue of armed guards.

The information took 320 days to reach the Emperor, who then reinforced the Ministry to respond to local Wollo officials to enlist the victims of the famine.

[2][5] In response, the government established the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) department to reduce future famines and coordinate international assistance.

[11] Although the region is infamous for recurrent crop failures and continuous food shortage and starvation risk, this episode was remarkably severe.

[21][22] The second group who suffered from the severe famine were farmers residing in the middle altitude of north-central Wollo Province, who were tenants.

[3] At the latter point, the peasants and nomads of Wollo began sabotaging the Haile Selassie reputation by starving, and resolved to ignore them.

[26] The Wollo famine contributed to Haile Selassie's government collapse, not only the hunger among peasants and nomads, but also swept among the students and middle classes of Addis Ababa.