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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter season cold. It also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have abundant amounts of an oil considered to hold great pledge 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 offer high productivity, in addition to to establish methods 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 nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to Jatropha will be built and suitable varieties will be established. Moreover, in this arid area that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.