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The drylands in Kenya represents about 84% of land mass, hosts a ¼ of human population and >70% of livestock herd. Drylands experience below optimal livestock productivity, constrained by unavailability of quantity and quality feeds. Low availability of feeds is attributed to poor management of grazing resources in the natural systems leading to degradation and, limited adoption of improved pasture and fodder technologies leading to limited restoration and establishment of new pasture fields. Livestock in the drylands produce methane from enteric fermentation of low quality feed in the rumen. Manure also produce methane but to a lesser extent (Gerber et al. 2013). Enteric methane emission also represents a 2-10% loss of the dietary energy (Moraes et al. 2014). In the last couple of years, KALRO has been undertaking research aimed at enhancing feed availability, livestock performance, climate smartness of the production systems and profitability