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The Ethanol Hunger / Wallace E. Tyner, Project Syndicate, 3/05/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tyner1/EnglishFood prices have in many cases surpassed  the peak levels reached in July 2008. At that time, food-price increases  were attributed to growing global demand for food commodities, a major  decline in the value of the US dollar, crop failures in some parts of  the world, and biofuels. But what is driving the surge in prices today?...