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 nation has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter season cold. It also has great deals of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have abundant quantities of an oil considered to hold terrific promise as a biofuel. The goal of this task is to use these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high efficiency, along with to develop methods of cultivating these varieties. 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 data associating with jatropha curcas will be constructed and appropriate ranges will be established. Moreover, in this desert that goes through winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to climate modification. The task will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant hereditary resources that are native to Botswana.