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MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a sunny morning at Mexico City’s main wholesale market, traders in aprons rushed metal handcarts of fresh produce between the stores distributing more than a third of the country’s fruit and vegetables.
This sprawling food supply hub is also key to the capital’s strategy to become carbon-neutral, as the designated site for a new biodiesel plant, a bio-digester to produce gas from waste, and one of the world’s largest urban solar power projects.
“We can’t be using fossil fuels,” said banana merchant Juan Manuel Portillo, 56, in his office in the Central de Abasto market. “We need to change people’s way of thinking.” ....

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