Introduction: To measure food access and diet quality, simplified and reliable tools for individual and
household have been found helpful to reduce the cost of dietary survey. Objective: The main objective was to determine
the effect of agricultural periods on household’s food consumption habits in the Centre-West Region of Burkina Faso.
Methods: A cross sectional study on household food consumption was carried using the last seven day (7) recall. Food
consumption score (FCS) was built by adding the values for all food groups consumed during the seven days for each
household. Results: Overall, 985 households from 37 rural places and 3 urban cities from the Centre-West Region of
Burkina Faso were involved in the study. Each household was visited three times in the year 2017. With regard to the
food consumption score, 32%, 27.8% and 11.6% of the households had a poor (FCS ≤ score respectively in the
agricultural welding, mitigation, and increase periods. The household food consumption scores were borderline (2135)
respectively 23.7%, 44.2%, and 39.5%.There were more households who consumed vegetables in welding period than
another period of year. The proportion of households who consumed sometimes vitamin A-rich and iron-rich food groups
increased respectively during mitigation, welding and increase periods. Conclusion: Household diet quality based on
food group’s consumption was affected by agricultural periods. More efforts in term of strengthening food security more
particularly in vulnerable household are needed for healthy diets for people during the year.

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