Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold. It likewise has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to use these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to and winter and deal high productivity, as well as to develop approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique will assist to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information associating with jatropha curcas will be constructed and appropriate varieties will be established. Moreover, in this dry region that is subject to cold weather, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with regard to environment modification. The project will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.