Burkina Faso is a Sahelian West African country. Current population is about 16 millions and 43.9 % live below the poverty line. Burkina Faso is classified as both a least developed country and a low-income, food-deficit country. The nutritional quality is poor (1830 against 2000 Kcal/person/day). Food insecurity affects 50 % of households, and is increasing in the urban areas. However, Burkina Faso is one of the country that respect the 2003 Maputo’s declaration’s call to invest at least 10 percent of the budget in agriculture, in order to increase agricultural production and attain food self-sufficiency. Several training programs dealing with food security, safety or quality are available in the country universities, notably at Bobo-Dioulasso Polytechnic University and Ouagadougou University. Current research activities with respect to food security or food quality focus on the following subjects: -Improvement of animal health and production in the rural areas to increase production and intake of animal food protein by the population (meat and eggs); -Evaluation of locally available by/products in animal nutrition to reduce cereal intake by animals; -Research on new varieties of cereal seed suitable for arid environment; -Research on soil fertility for a sustainable agriculture production; -Novel sources of lipids from wild grains of Burkina Faso; -Biochemical and hygienic qualities assessement of street foods in Burkina Faso; -Nutritional quality evaluation of sorghum and millet varieties: application in weaning food preparation; -Nutraceuticals (Antioxidant activities) of staple food and medicinal plants of Burkina Faso; -Molecular epidemiology of Aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of maize in Burkina Faso; - Tables of Food Composition.