European Annual Conference “Peace and Agriculture” 2023, Modra, Slovak Republic
Bratislava, September 18, 2023 – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic Mr. Jozef Bíreš will host the 9th European Annual Conference “Peace and Agriculture” in Modra on September 21, 2023 (Thursday). Conference is organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the Association […]
18th rye harvest at the Chapel of Reconciliation
On 26 July 2023, the 18th rye harvest since the beginning of this project in 2006 took place at the Chapel of Reconciliation. It was the eleventh time that it took place within the framework of FriedensBrot.The announcement in the regional and national press had attracted numerous interested people to Bernauer Strasse, who followed the […]
FriedensBrot Donations for Initiatives in Ukraine
Within the scope of its 7th FORUM, the FriedensBrot association supported two Ukrainian initiatives with funds from its Ukraine fund-raising campaign which was started early this year. One of these is the “Bortsch” initiative in support (seeds and plants) of Ukrainian families and farmers for home growing of vegetables for their national dish. For this […]
Dedication of the Field of Peace at Kärsämäki in Finland
Vice chairman Udo Folgart and Managing director of the association FriedensBrot e.V. Dr. Gibfried Schenk at the invitation of Ms Hanna Karsikas, chairwoman of the friends’ association of the shingle church, attended the dedication of the Kärsämäki Field of Peace. At the initiative of the architect Mikael Merenmies, who lives in Berlin, this peace field […]
Guests at the rye field at the Bernauer Strasse Wall Memorial
Since the founding of the association FriedensBrot e.V., Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank has supported the association and the international network “Peace and Agriculture” associated with it.On June 27, 2022, Jens Kollmann, general counsel, and Helga Immel, liaison office of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, visited the Wall Memorial. They were accompanied by Dr. Antje Pecher, director of the Volkshochschule at […]
War in Ukraine – FriedensBrot is committed to solidarity
Always – be it the leadership of the VDL Landesverband Ost, or scholars, as well as the management of the Verbindungsstelle Landwirtschaft-Industrie (liaison body agriculture/industry) and the Rehwinkel-Stiftung (foundation) for the rye field, and regarding the Berlin Wall Memorial, whether the extended board meets for a strategy conference at the Heimvolkshochschule on the Seddiner lake, […]
Fundraising “Ukraine”
The PeaceBread association is calling on its members, friends and supporters to a fundraising campaign “Ukraine”. With this, the association wants to specifically support aid measures and projects from the (international) PeaceBread network that are now underway or will be started for the people in Ukraine. You can find the call for donations by the […]
Peace and Agriculture
Picture: Sebastian Christ Dear friends, members, partners and supporters of the association FriedensBrot e.V. and the international network “Peace and Agriculture”, with our partners from Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, we are united by the common history of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the […]
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
We warmly welcome the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Cem Özdemir as the new patron of the PeaceBread project! We are grateful that the minister is continuing the good tradition of the previous ministers, most recently Julia Klöckner. Picture: BMEL/Photothek/Trutschel
FriedensBrot 2021 stands for cooperation and solidarity across borders. Looking forward to the International PeaceBread Conference on 7 September, 2021
On 23rd August, the PeaceBread association presented this year’s PeaceBread to Mr. Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). On this occasion, Mr. Anton Blöth, Chairman of FriedensBrot e.V. explained: “European PeaceBread is a unique symbol for cooperation and solidarity across borders in Europe. Every year, we and […]