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Game Over: Ending Corporate Agriculture's Game of Monopoly


October 23, 7:00PM ET

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For decades, agribusiness giants and multinational corporations have treated our food and farm system as a twisted game of Monopoly.

Join the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (Iowa CCI) for a webinar that exposes the monopolization of agriculture by these corporate titans.


Austin Frerick, author of Barons: Money, Power and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry, will pull back the curtain to reveal how a handful of companies, led by massively powerful modern-day “Robber Barons,” have managed to seize control of the food we eat—at the expense of independent farmers, consumers, and the environment. Then, hear from farmers who are actively taking control of their own livelihoods and empowering themselves and others to challenge the status-quo.


With upcoming elections and a new Farm Bill on the horizon, we’ll also explore promising federal policy efforts that could reshape our food system—and how you can take action to support a more just, equitable future.

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This webinar will be recorded for future viewing.

Featured Speakers:

Austin Frerick is an expert on agricultural and antitrust policy. He worked at the Open Markets Institute, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Congressional Research Service before becoming a Fellow at Yale University. He is a 7th generation Iowan and 1st generation college graduate, with degrees from Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Visit his website here.

Barb Kalbach is a fourth-generation family farmer, retired registered nurse, and board president of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. She first became active in politics and the family farm movement during the 1980's Farm Crisis. Keeping the family legacy alive, Barb and her husband raised three children on their family farm. In 2002, Barb organized with her community to fight back against a proposed factory farm, with the support of Iowa CCI, and became active within the organization. She believes firmly in the power of people standing together in rural areas to advocate for solutions to shared challenges.

Duron Chavis is the founder of Happily Natural Day; a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to holistic health, culture and social change. He is also co-founder of the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons; a BIPOC led community land trust that received 85 acres of farm land as an act of reparative justice – Chavis works to redistribute land to Black and Brown farmers across Central Virginia. For over a decade, Chavis has utilized urban agriculture as a strategy for building community agency and ownership in marginalized communities. He uses local food as a tool to build racial equity, climate & food justice and community resiliency and advocates on a national level for equitable policy reform for rural and urban farmers.

Kenya Abraham is a Fayette County, KY farmer and co-founder of Slak Market Farm LLC, producing signature raw milk products, halal meat and pastured eggs. Kenya is strongly dedicated to utilizing the farm as a place for serving the well-being of both her family and community. She also operates Stack A Story Bookshop, is a certified organic inspector through the International Organic Inspectors Organization (IOIA), and worked as a farmer liaison for Equity in Agriculture. In 2020, Kenya was awarded the Small Farmer of the Year Award from Kentucky State University and the Emerging Leader Award from the Community Farm Alliance. Currently, Kenya is the Organic Transition Program Manager for the Organic Association of Kentucky, and sits on the board of directors for the Community Farm Alliance.

About Barons


Barons is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Readers will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters. They will visit the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. And they will learn that in the food business, crime really does pay—especially when you can bribe and then double-cross the president of Brazil. Barons paints a stark portrait of corporate consolidation, but it also shows that a fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible—if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it.

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