Crops in Botswana grow gradually due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the accomplishment of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can stand up to dryness and winter season cold. It also has big numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful amounts of an oil considered to hold fantastic pledge as a biofuel. The goal of this task is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather condition and deal high productivity, as well as to develop methods of cultivating these ranges. In this way, a biological technique 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 connecting to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal varieties will be established. Moreover, in this dry area that is subject to winter, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with respect to environment modification. The task will work to build a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant hereditary resources that are indigenous to Botswana.