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 country 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 plentiful amounts of an oil thought about to hold fantastic guarantee as a biofuel. The goal of this project is to utilize these resources to develop Jatropha varieties that are resistant to dryness and winter and offer high performance, as well as to develop techniques of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based on the country's own biological resources
A database of biological resource data relating to jatropha curcas will be built and ideal ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this dry area that is subject to cold weather, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to environment change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model using plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.