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 upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter cold. It likewise has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil thought about to hold great promise as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to use these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and deal high efficiency, as well as to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological approach will assist to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and suitable ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this arid area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to environment modification. The project will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.