9th FORUM PeaceBread:
On October 23, 2025, the 9th FORUM PeaceBread took place at the Visitor Center of the Berlin Wall Memorial. The focus was on the rye fields surrounding the Chapel of Reconciliation – a place where history, remembrance, and agriculture come together in a unique way, and which marks the origin of the PeaceBread idea, as […]
20th Rye Harvest at the Chapel of Reconciliation
Berlin, July 30, 2025 – On July 30, the rye field at the Chapel of Reconciliation, located on the grounds of the Berlin Wall Memorial, was harvested for the 20th time. The approximately 2,000 m² grain field in the former border strip is a significant part of the memorial site on Bernauer Straße: it symbolizes […]
Federal Minister of Agriculture Rainer assumes patronage
Berlin, 30 June 2025 – The association FriedensBrot is pleased to announce that the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Alois Rainer, has assumed patronage of the FriedensBrot project. In doing so, the new Minister continues the valued tradition established by his predecessors and affirms the long-standing and close cooperation between the Federal […]
Change in Management and Strategic Partnership with the Andreas Hermes Akademie (AHA)
Berlin, 14 January 2025 – As of 1 January 2025, the affairs of FriedensBrot e.V. are being managed by Dr. Anoush Steinberger-Ficiciyan from the Andreas Hermes Akademie (AHA). At the same time, the association has entered into a strategic partnership with AHA to intensify the dialogue on agriculture and peace in Europe and to inspire […]
10th Annual European Conference “Peace and Agriculture” in Berlin and Seddiner See,
30 September to 2 October 2024: PeaceBread across generations: ready for the next start. Promoting European dialogue for peace and agriculture Report in 7 parts Part 1/7 Welcome evening „Welcome in the Heimvolkshochschule at Seddiner See“ at September, 30, 2024, 06:00 PM We are meeting again in Germany at the very same place where it […]
Peace and food security: an inseparable link – PeaceBread celebrates its 10th anniversary and looks to the future
Press release Berlin, October 2, 2024 -Ten years after its founding, the European PeaceBread is returning to its place of origin in Berlin. As part of a ceremony at the Catholic Academy and an ecumenical PeaceBread ceremony at the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernauer Strasse, the patron of the international project, Federal Minister of Agriculture […]
Trip to Suchowola, Poland, Podlasie region from 30 August to 1 September 2024
(A travel report by Heike Zeller, PeaceBread member, consultant, presenter and owner aHEU – Regional Marketing Strategies) Six of us travelled to Podlasie – a beautiful region in the east of Poland, bordering Lithuania to the north and Belarus to the east. Ukraine is not far to the south. Arable farming, meadows, fallow land, forests, […]
10th Annual Conference “Peace and Agriculture” from 30 September – 2 October 2024 in Brandenburg and Berlin
Ready for the next beginning – Promoting European dialogue for peace and agriculture Ladies and gentlemen, The European PeaceBread is returning to Berlin after a 10-year journey. Baked from rye from the partner countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, the PeaceBread is a symbol of peace and European integration in action. This is in remembrance […]
8th FORUM PeaceBread on the situation and prospects of Ukrainian agriculture
Don’t wait for peace, invest in Ukraine now! Link to Video f.l.t.r.: Dr. Olga Trofimtseva, Anton Blöth, Catarina Zanner, Matthias Berninger, Dr. Gibfried Schenk In times of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the FORUM PeaceBread 2023 once again provided an impressive platform for discussions on the inseparable link between peace and agriculture. In […]
9th Annual European Conference “Peace and Agriculture” in Modra, Slovak Republic on 20-22 September 2023
Topic of the event: „Promoting young farmer’s engagement in development of research and use of the new technologies in agriculture“ Video Link Wednesday, 20 September 2023 The participants of the 9th European Annual Conference “Peace and Agriculture” met from 20 to 22 September in tranquil Modra, the “Pearl of the Small Carpathians” and town with […]