Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment 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 cold. It likewise has big numbers of Jatropha trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil thought about to hold terrific promise as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to use these resources to develop jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high productivity, along with to develop techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will assist to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data relating to Jatropha will be built and suitable varieties will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to climate change. The task will work to develop a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.