Document Type : Reasearch paper
Abstract
The food gap means the disproportion between the necessary nutritional quantities and the number of inhabitants, which leads the country concerned to import food from abroad. Thus, any shortage of food resources offset by an increase in population are factors that contribute to the widening of the food gap, for example limited investment in agricultural and food projects. Most countries are trying hard to satisfy the population's need for food crops, especially strategic food products, to reduce dependence on imports. This study came in an attempt to reveal the spatial variation of the apparent food gap of one of the most important strategic crops in the food and economic pattern of the Iraqi individual and its spatial variation between production and consumption.
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