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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter cold. It also has large numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold fantastic promise as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to utilize these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high performance, in addition to to develop techniques of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological approach will help 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 connecting to Jatropha will be built and suitable ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that is subject to cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to climate change. The task will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.