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 withstand dryness and winter season cold. It also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil thought about to hold terrific promise as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to utilize these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, as well as to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique will assist to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to environment change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.