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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil thought about to hold terrific pledge as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to use these resources to establish Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high efficiency, along with to develop techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological technique will help to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data associating with jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be established. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to environment modification. The project will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.