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 upon bioenergy. However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter season cold. It likewise has big numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold excellent pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and deal high efficiency, along with to develop methods of cultivating these ranges. In this method, a biological approach will assist to accomplish a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data connecting to Jatropha will be built and suitable varieties will be established. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to environment modification. The project will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.