Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based upon bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter season cold. It also has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil thought about to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this task is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, in addition to to develop approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this method, a biological technique will assist to attain a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to jatropha curcas will be built and suitable varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to climate change. The project will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.