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Akanksha Singh

Activity areas

  • Diverse cropping systems
  • Biocontrol
  • Multitrophic interactions

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Long-term farming systems comparisons in the tropics (SysCom) 01.05.2005 31.12.2026

Training / professional career

  • Since 2021 Scientist at FiBL Switzerland
  • 2019 - 2021 Postdoctorate ETH Zurich,
  • 2018 - 2019 Journal development specialist Frontiers Media
  • 2017 - 2018 Established ‘Bhoomi’ project
  • 2012 - 2016 PhD Technical University of Munich

Committee work

  • IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

Journals

  • Singh A, Mayer VE, Zytynska SE, Hesse B and Weisser WW (2021) The Efficiency of Plant Defense: Aphid Pest Pressure Does Not Alter Production of Food Rewards by Okra Plants in Ant Presence. Front. Plant Sci. 12:627570. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.627570
  • Singh, A., C. Schöb, P. Iannetta, and P Krütli. (2020). DiverBeans: Report of the first stakeholder workshop in North Macedonia. ETH Research Collection. doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000399079.
  • Singh, A., W.W. Weisser, R. Hanna, R. Houmgny, and S.E. Zytynska. (2017). Reduce pests, enhance production: benefits of intercropping at high densities for okra farmers in Cameroon. Pest Management Science, 73: 2017–2027. doi:10.1002/ps.4636.
  • Singh, A., S.E. Zytynska, R. Hanna and W.W. Weisser. (2016). Ant attendance of the cotton aphid is beneficial for okra plants: Deciphering multitrophic interactions. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 18:3. 10.1111/afe.12159.
  • Singh, A., J. Braun, E. Decker, S. Hans, A. Wagner, W. W. Weisser and S. E. Zytynska. (2014). Plant genetic variation mediates an indirect ecological effect between belowground earthworms and aboveground aphids. BMC Ecology, 14:25. 10.1186/s12898-014-0025-5.

PhD thesis

  • Singh, A. (2016): Deciphering multitrophic interactions for aphid control on okra in Cameroon. Technical University of Munich, Diss. Naturwissenschaften