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 country has an abundance of wild plants that can withstand dryness and winter cold. It likewise has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to hold great promise as a biofuel. The goal of this job is to use these resources to develop Jatropha ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high performance, along with to develop techniques of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological approach 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 associating with Jatropha will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is versatile with regard to environment change. The task will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.