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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter cold. It likewise has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil considered to hold excellent promise as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to utilize these resources to establish Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and offer high efficiency, along with to develop methods of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological method will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data relating to Jatropha will be built and suitable varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this dry area that goes through cold weather, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to environment change. The project will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.