Forests worldwide have significant economic, environmental, social and cultural values. Kenya forest sector is vibrant, undergoing a number of remarkable changes. It is estimated that the forestry sector contributes approximately 3.6% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The sector contributes in excess of KSH 20 billion (about 180 MillionEuro) annually worth of goods to the economy (KFS 2014). Forestry sector in Kenya is fairly supported by relevant policies and programmes geared towards sustainable management and aligning the sector to the country's vision and aspirations for the future. The creation of the National Forestry Programme (NFP) has revitalised the coordination of the sector, with private forestry emerging as a source for employment and wealth creation. The sector is however faced by numerous challenges to include and not limited to: inadequate forest sector funding, which impacts on possibilities to implement strategic policies like NFP; inadequate capacity of the County Governments to implement devolved forestry functions like overseeing management and utilization of the forest resource on community and private land and weak organizational framework to adequately support on-farm tree growing. Although re-vitalizing, the wood industry is struggling with technological challenges with a considerable number of inefficient processing systems, gaps in technical as well as businessmanagement skills to run wood processing business. Variations in rain patterns presumably due to climate change poses major setbacks in the development of forestry and forest products particularly in Arid and Semi-arid Lands (ASaLs).