Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement 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 quantities of an oil thought about to hold terrific pledge as a biofuel. The objective of this project is to make use of these resources to establish jatropha curcas ranges that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and deal high productivity, along with to establish approaches of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological approach will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a model based on the country’s own biological resources A database of biological resource data relating to jatropha curcas will be built and appropriate ranges will be developed. Moreover, in this desert that is subject to cold weather condition, efforts will be made to develop a cultivation system that is versatile with respect to climate change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production design using plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.