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 hold up against dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to utilize these resources to develop Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high performance, along with to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be established. Moreover, in this arid area that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to environment modification. The job will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.