The 12th Annual European Conference, “Resilience of Agriculture in Times of Crises,” from 6 to 9 October 2026, in Balchik, Bulgaria
From 6–9 October 2026, the international PeaceBread Network will gather in Balchik, Bulgaria for the 12th International Conference “Peace and Agriculture” under the theme “Resilience of Agriculture in Times of Crises.” Representatives from ministries, civil society organisations, farmers’ associations and partner organisations from across Europe will come together to discuss current challenges and strengthen dialogue […]
10. FORUM FriedensBrot – East. West. City. Countryside: What Divides Us, What Unites Us – Then, Now, Tomorrow.
At this year’s 10th edition of the FORUM FriedensBrot, we will focus on the lines of division and connection between East and West, as well as between city and countryside, to mark the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The FORUM will take place on November 4, 2026, from 7:00 p.m. to […]
FORUM FriedensBrot 2025 – appointment announcement
We would like to draw your attention to the date of this year’s FORUM FriedensBrot: Thursday, 23 October 2025, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. at the Visitor Center, Berlin Wall Memorial Bernauer Straße 119 13355 Berlin FORUM FriedensBrot 2025: “20 Years of the Rye Field: Reconciliation, Understanding, and Remembrance at the Interface between East and West” […]
FriedensBrot honors Udo Folgart and thanks Ms. and Mr. Schenk for their dedication
Berlin, 09 May 2025 – As part of a ceremonial event in Ribbeck, Brandenburg, the association FriedensBrot honored Udo Folgart for his outstanding work and appointed him as a PeaceBread Ambassador. This award, the highest given by the association, honors Folgart’s commitment and his special contributions to promoting the PeaceBread idea. Udo Folgart, long-standing President […]
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 […]
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 […]