Café: Winners of the Illy Award and Latte Art champion – 03/25/2024 – Café na Prensa
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Minas Gerais, the largest coffee producer in Brazil, was the highlight of the 33rd edition of the Ernesto Illy Award for Sustainable Coffee Quality for Espresso. The three winners are producers from different regions of the state: Décio Bruxel (Cerrado Mineiro), Matheus Lopes Sanglard (Matas de Minas) and Flávio da Costa Figueredo (Sul de Minas).
They won a prize of R$10,000 each, in addition to a trip to participate in the 9th Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award, which brings together 27 coffee farmers selected from nine countries that supply beans for the illy blend.
The ceremony in which the winners were announced was held in São Paulo, last Thursday (21), with the presence of the president of illycaffè, Andrea Illy.
BARISTA FROM SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS WINS BRAZILIAN LATTE ART WINNER
Barista Jota de Paula, from Jardim do Café, a coffee shop located in São José dos Campos (about 100 km from São Paulo), won the Brazilian Latte Art Championship, held last weekend, in Brasília.
The podium also had Tiaguinho Rocha, from Curitiba, as runner-up, and Eduardo Olímpio with bronze. Olímpio, in fact, defended his title after winning the last edition of the tournament and reaching the semifinals of the World Cup, in November 2023.
In time: latte art is what drawings made with steamed milk in espresso coffee are called.
ABIC AND BSCA ANNOUNCE INITIATIVES FOR COFFEE WOMEN
Abic (Brazilian Coffee Industry Association) and BSCA (Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association) launched initiatives to promote women in the coffee sector.
On International Women’s Day, Abic created a committee that will aim to give more visibility to professionals in the sector and offer courses and workshops for women on management, marketing, sustainability and innovation, in addition, of course, to gender issues.
BSCA signed a memorandum with the International Women’s Coffee Alliance and ApexBrasil (Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency) to, among other initiatives, develop actions to promote, abroad, coffee produced by Brazilian women.
Thus, entities that represent industrialists and specialty coffee producers seek to develop women’s leadership in the sector, which is still heavily dominated by men. Large coffee manufacturers in Brazil have white men in key management positions.
In the field, the reality is no different. Data from the 2017 Agricultural Census, from IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), show that, in a universe of 5.07 million rural establishments, 4.11 million (81.3%) are managed only by men.
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