Barista & Farmer, here are the participants of the 2018 edition

Barista & Farmer 2018:
here are the participants!

The nine finalists have been announced on Sunday november 12th during the WBC,World Barista Championship, at the Seoul Cafè Show in South Korea, by the talent´s creator, Francesco Sanapo, and the winner of the last edition of the show, Nikolaos Kanakaris.Nicole Battefeld (Germany), Diego Campos (Colombia), Iuliia Dziadevych(Ukraine), Cong Yuan (China), Matija Matijaško (Croatia), Daniel Munari (Brazil), Sara Ricci (Italy), Vala Stefansdottir (Iceland), Victoria Rovenskaya (Russia).

The talent, created by Francesco Sanapo, multiawarded barista champion, in collaboration with Italian Exhibition Group, World Coffee Events and SIGEP - Salone Internazionale Gelateria, Pasticceria, Panificazione Artigianale e Caffé, and with the patronage of Speciality Coffee Association (SCA), will take place in May 2018 in Colombia. The tenth will e revelaed at Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) in march 2018.

Barista & Farmer is created by Francesco Sanapo in collaboration with Italian Exhibition Group, and SIGEP . Salone Internazionale Gelateria, Pasticceria, Panificazione Artigianale e Caffè, with the patronage of SCA, Specialty Coffee Association. In collaboration with World Coffee Events and the ¡Tierra! Project by Lavazza. Supported by Lavazza, La Cimbali, Faema, Mumac Academy, Urnex and Genovese Coffee; golden media partner Barista Magazine and BarGiornale. Colombia, the country of origin of the fourth event. Colombia is the world´s third exporter of coffee, and has always played a key role in world coffee production, both because of the excellence of its raw materials and because of the small communities of dedicated and passionate coffee producers who often use high-quality, traditional methods. According to recent figures from the Comitato Italiano Caffè (Italian Coffee Committee), between December 2015 and November 2016 Colombia 12.5 million sacks of green coffee, and between January and September 2016 Italy imported 17.5 million kg (the equivalent of 292,273 sacks) of Columbian green coffee.