This study was conducted to assess the major livestock feed resources and feeding system of Dalifage district of Afar Regional state, Ethiopia. Three representative kebeles from pastoral and three from agro-pastoral were selected purposively from which 151 households were selected randomly for semistructured individual interview. Major feed resources were fodder trees, shrubs, (Acacia melifera, Grewia ferruginea, Salvadora persica, Cadaba rotundifolia, Dobera glabra and Ziziphus mauritana)and grasses (Cymbopogon pospischilii, Chrysopogon aucheri) and natural pasture. Destocking and migration were vital coping strategies to overcome feed shortage. Majority (76%) of the respondents reported that the status of grazing land/rangeland is decreasing and drought being the first cause of decline. In the agro-pastoral farming system, few members of the community supplement maize stover to milking cows, sick and weak animals. But most of the respondents (72.8%) do not use supplementary feed to their animals. Awareness should be created on supplementary feeding and introducing improved forage to improve status of communal rangeland to overcome feed shortage.

Keywords: farming system, feed resources, feeding system, pastoralists