Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil thought about to hold terrific guarantee as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to use these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high efficiency, as well as to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will help to accomplish a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal ranges will be established. Moreover, in this arid region that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to environment modification. The task will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.