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 hold up against dryness and winter season cold. It likewise has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil thought about to hold fantastic guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to use these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and deal high efficiency, as well as to develop methods of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological method will assist to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data relating to Jatropha will be constructed and ideal ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The project will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.