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 season cold. It also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold terrific guarantee as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to utilize these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high productivity, along with to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique will assist to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to Jatropha will be built and appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this arid region that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to climate change. The job will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are indigenous to Botswana.