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 withstand dryness and winter cold. It likewise has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil considered to hold excellent promise as a biofuel. The objective of this job is to make use of these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high performance, along with to develop approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique will assist to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information relating to jatropha curcas will be built and suitable ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.