Afghanistan Vouchers for Increased Production in Agriculture - TopicsExpress

Afghanistan Vouchers for Increased Production in Agriculture (AVIPA) Plus is an expansion of USAID’s successful 2008-2009 emergency voucher program that originally encompassed 18 provinces. The original AVIPA program provided 297,000 farmers with vouchers entitling them to significant discounts on and access to improved wheat seed and fertilizer in an effort to lower and stabilize food prices. During the fall of 2009, AVIPA Plus expanded to provide counter-insurgency stability programming in Helmand and Kandahar provinces within an agricultural framework.