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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 stand up to dryness and winter season cold. It likewise has big numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil considered to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to use these resources to develop Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high efficiency, in addition to to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological approach will help to achieve 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 appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this dry area that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with respect to environment modification. The project will work to build a production design utilizing plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.