This paper review the role of Islamic Microfinance Institutions in realizing food security for rural communities. Food security defined safe conditions from hunger, availability of sufficient food, easy access to quality food became a research issue to interest the attention of economists. Food security an indicator of welfare and even a strategy in solving poverty problems. This problem continues to experience by rural communities, due to the weakness in the capital has impact on the level of buying power of food. However, in another aspect, gives a profit for conventional microfinance institutions in use this situation by increasing interest rates and curbing middle to lower class community. So, the presence of Islamic Microfinance with ta'awun principle by sharia financing and empowerment programs in rural communities deserves to review because it can solve for the capital community. By using a qualitative approach namely library research with the microfinance literature related, is analyzed empirically, comparatively, and giving recommendations with several theoretical works. Finally, this paper concludes that IMFs has a role in realizing food security in rural communities’ namely economic development adoption of new technologies, better agricultural mechanisms, increased productivity, increased living standards of farmers, and alleviating poverty.