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 stand up to dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil thought about to hold fantastic pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high efficiency, as well as to establish techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique 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 relating to jatropha curcas will be constructed and ideal ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that goes through winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is versatile 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.