Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter cold. It also has large numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil thought about to hold terrific promise as a biofuel. The goal of this task is to utilize these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high efficiency, along with to develop approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique will assist to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to Jatropha will be constructed and ideal varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is flexible with regard to environment change. The project will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.