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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter season cold. It also has large numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold fantastic pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to utilize these resources to establish Jatropha ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and deal high productivity, as well as to develop techniques of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological method will help to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the country'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 dry region that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is flexible with respect to environment change. The job will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.