Abstract
Form of food shortages throughout the ages difficult challenge for someone's paid to work for the sake of innovation means necessary, which provides him satisfy his need of food in order to warranty stay for him and his family and this is not like an individual self only, but like the rest of the communities that suffer from shortages in this area The problem of food occupied center stage among the economic problems that are addressed key economic and social progress in any country in the world at large, and since Iraq has suffered from many problems was the lack of food and scarcity dramatically along the sharp rise in prices as a result of what pubic from the scourge wars, especially in the eighties of the last century and the economic blockade lasted thirteen years made him suffer from gaps food despite the application of the ration card system, which has become not meet the requirements daily especially in light of decreasing continuous in vocabulary and poor quality distributed to citizens of this along with subsidized Large suffered by the agricultural sector (as the main engine of the wheel food) of water shortages significantly added his lack of raw materials needed for the production process is the cause of a lack of crops basic agricultural and this explain through our research explain of Staff basic availability of food a detailed presentation of the reality of the agricultural sector and identify aspects and the circumstances surrounding it and to clarify the size of the food gap for most major crops in Iraq (wheat, barley, rice) and the abundance of these crops or not in order to draw a clear picture of reality food and thus the development of solutions and appropriate proposals to correct them, in order to achieve this situation came Find represented in two major axes first axis and explained the theoretical side of the concept of food security and the concept of the food gap and the main causes of this gap, second axis has explained the reality of food security in Iraq and the size of the food gap and the factors that led to breadth.
