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 on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter season cold. It also has large numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil thought about to hold excellent promise as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to use these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high efficiency, along with 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 upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information associating with Jatropha will be built and ideal varieties will be established. Moreover, in this dry region that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with regard to climate change. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.