Abstract:
The researcher shed light on a diet in Iraq before 2003 became in this period. And how the ration card has a variety of vocabulary and cover the need of the population of commodities and have a key role in saving Iraq from a real crisis in the period of economic siege, especially in light of the State's direction to support the agricultural sector, which in that period able to fill half of the market needs of food the basic. As well as providing strategic storage at the Ministry of Commerce enough for six months But after the events of 2003 and the crises that hit the country and the unstable security situation began to rise voices calling for reform of the ration card system as a system that is a burden on the public budget. The ration card has been reduced in previous years in accordance with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund, the abolition of government support, but in stages without taking into account the level of per capita income and the reality of productive estates in Iraq, in general, there are many factors affected the system of catering in Iraq, The ration card in 2004 and until 2017 of the most influential factors on the ration card As a result, many of its items were finally canceled and the quantities of each other were reduced. If the abolition of the system of supply, the state is developing the social protection system to contain the poor classes in Iraq, which was based mainly on the livelihood of the ration card
