Welcome!Welcome on the Trias website! Trias is a Belgian development organisation active in twelve countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Trias supports almost 600.000 entrepreneurs through more than 80 local partner organisations.
Trias and her partner organisations support people working in smallholder agriculture or as micro-entrepreneurs. In Flanders (Belgium), Trias is closely linked to six member based organizations: the rural organisations Landelijke Gilden, KVLV and KLJ and the entrepreneurial organisations UNIZO, markant and Neos.
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Latest news From poor grain farmer to versatile beekeeper07-05-2012Until recently the family Caballeros could hardly make ends meet. The revenue from their grain cultivation did not suffice to raise three children properly. Fortunately Pilarh came up with an alternative.  Smallholder farmers in Hoima Form a Cooperative07-05-2012In 2005, 6 farmer groups comprising of 31 members decided to work together with the aim of improving their lives. By 2009, several other groups had joined the association, and the now 245 members decided to transform the...  Rural women in Brazil in search of recognition16-04-2012Equality between men and women is rising in Belgium. But in many developing countries this is not yet the case. Therefore Trias is striving for gender equality in its intervention zones.  A lift for Cooperatives 16-04-20122012 is the International Year of Cooperatives, an initiative of a.o. United Nations. In order to underline the importance of cooperatives and to help young cooperative organizations, the website My Coop has been set up.  Onions are a source of income in Ghana27-03-2012In the north of Ghana the fields are dry during seven or eight months per year. Local farmers succeed in cultivating onions through irrigation. Now Trias wants to make sure that they are able to make a living out of it.  Trias supports even more farmers in Brazil22-03-2012Thanks to the renewal of the partnership between Trias and the Brazilian cooperative Cresol, more and more poor farmers gain access to credit.  Uganda fastest growing economy in the world22-03-2012Uganda encounters itself in the middle of an economic explosion. Nevertheless the growth figures only have an impact on a fraction of the Ugandan community. In agriculture there still remains a great deal of work to be done.  FAO underlines the importance of agricultural cooperatives12-03-2012Farmer cooperatives will be increasingly important in worldwide poverty reduction. This has been stated by the new Director-General of the FAO, José Graziano da Silva during the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre. |
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