UpTrade solves for affordability and access to key farming technology and inputs for smallholder farmers in developing economies by enabling them to pay for these assets using their livestock and produce instead of fiat currency.

Using their livestock as money, it makes otherwise unaffordable assets like solar water pumps and solar microgrids, fertilizers and seeds more affordable and more accessible, increasing the farmers’ productivity and livelihood, building financial resilience and reducing the need for migration away from their natural lands. Having better access to tools and the subsequent increased productivity strengthens the smallholder’s farmers’ roles in the food value chain.

Singh is a world-leading soil ecologist. His work has brought about fundamental shifts in functional microbial ecology by providing direct evidence that loss of soil biodiversity leads to proportional loss of ecosystem functions from local to global scales.

He has more than 300 journal publications spanning diverse fields including soil biology and health, ecosystem functions, and sustainable food production. Singh is best known for his global studies that demonstrated the central role of soil health and biodiversity in ecosystem functions including crop production and climate regulation