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 withstand dryness and winter 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 use these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high performance, in addition to to establish techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological method 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 data connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and appropriate varieties will be established. Moreover, in this arid area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with regard to environment change. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.