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 endure dryness and winter cold. It likewise has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to hold great guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high efficiency, in addition to to establish techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this method, a biological technique 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 will be constructed and ideal ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a growing system that is versatile with respect to environment change. The project will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.