Crops in Botswana grow gradually 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 also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, as well as to develop methods of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological approach will help to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and appropriate varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with respect to climate modification. The job will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.