{"id":150,"date":"2025-10-02T03:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/balcha-girma\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:37:07","slug":"balcha-girma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/balcha-girma\/","title":{"rendered":"Balcha 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 Balcha<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=\"Balcha 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\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/balcha-girma\/143622-2-eng-gb\/balcha-girma_author.jpg\" alt=\"Balcha Girma\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tThe Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Ethiopia<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\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. Currently he is an Executive Director of the Climate Change Forum in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"Investments in green development are direly needed\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Investments in green development are direly needed<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/balcha-girma\/\">Girma Balcha<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t21 December 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe AFC conference resulted in a Roadmap for our future Climate Smart Agriculture. Agriculture is the way out of the problem of global food security. 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