{"id":148,"date":"2025-10-02T03:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/balch-girma\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:37:03","slug":"balch-girma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/balch-girma\/","title":{"rendered":"Balch Girma"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGirma Balch<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Balch Girma\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Girma Balcha<\/b>, Ph.D. in Seed Conservation and Plant Biotechnolgy from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He has been heading the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Ethiopia, in the last ten years. 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