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 endure dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to pledge as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to utilize these resources to establish jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, as well as to develop approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological method will assist 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 connecting to Jatropha will be constructed and appropriate varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this arid area that goes through winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to climate change. The job will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.