Heidi Kuhn Launches Foundation to Help Women Farmers Worldwide

• Heidi Kühn, founder of Roots of Peace and winner of the 2023 World Food Prize, has established the Heidi Kühn Global Peace Foundation
• The foundation's inaugural project is the "White Rose Campaign" to assist Global Gardens

Heidi Kühn, global peace activist, founder of Roots of Peace, and 2023 World Food Prize Laureate announced that she is further expanding her efforts through her new non-profit organization called the Heidi Kühn Global Peace Foundation.

Her first campaign plan is called the "White Rose Campaign", which will be a global campaign to create Global Gardens that feed the hungry.

The first year of the campaign will be dedicated to the issue of women farmers in and out of the country in preparation for the United Nations 2026 Year of the Woman Farmer.

The campaign was announced at the Borlaug Dialogue to a capacity audience on October 21, 2025, at The Hilton Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa.

Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President Emeritus of the World Food Prize, joined Heidi Kühn as the opening speaker for the campaign.

The other panelists included Tucker Kühn, CEO of Roots of Peace; Violet Grgich, CEO of Grgich Hills Estate; and David Beckmann, founder of Bread for the World.

The campaign announcement and panel event concluded with the participants planting Global Gardens in support of the campaign.

During the event, there were hundreds of white roses that were given to students from abroad, teachers, educators, and participants of the 2025 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue with the theme entitled: SOILutions for Security: A Celebration of the Contributions of Agriculture to Global Stability.

Heidi described the White Rose Campaign as a global call to respect the relationship of humanity to the earth.

She explained that the green stem represents the resilience of life, and that the thorns represent barriers to peace. The campaign advocates for investing in agriculture, and Global Gardens, as the antidote to hunger.

According to the World Food Prize Foundation, every day 700 million people are hungry; over 2 billion do not have reliable access to food; and nearly 1 in 4 children are stunted due to malnutrition.

Heidi hopes that the white rose will inspire governments, corporations, foundations, and individuals to fund Global Gardens.

She emphasized the need for peace to meet the global challenge of sustainably producing adequate amounts of nutritious food and providing for the projected 10 billion people on the planet world by the year 2050.

The campaign promotes PAX AGRICULTURA—Peace Through Agriculture—that supports regenerative projects and agricultural activities that strengthen food security and provide healthy soils.

In other related efforts, recently at the University of California Berkeley, the Heidi Initiative for Post-Conflict Development Studies was launched as a research initiative focused on economic and agricultural development in societies transitioning out of military and civil conflict.