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 on . However, the nation has an abundance of wild plants that can endure dryness and winter cold. It also has great deals of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil considered to hold great guarantee 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 and deal high productivity, along with to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the nation’s own biological resources A database of biological resource information connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is versatile with regard to environment modification. The project will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.