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 bioenergy. However, the nation has an of wild plants that can stand up to 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 great guarantee as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to make use of these resources to establish Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and deal high productivity, along with to establish approaches of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological method will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production design based upon the nation’s own biological resources A database of biological resource information associating with Jatropha will be built and suitable ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that undergoes winter, efforts will be made to develop a growing system that is flexible with regard to environment modification. The task will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design utilizing plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.