<p>Since the middle of the last decade, resilience has occupied an important place in the intervention frameworks of aid and development. Centred on the notion of capacity and agency, it is often considered as a mobilising concept, due to its integrative and transformative dimensions. In this article, we choose to approach the empirical variations of “food security resilience”, by analyzing the meaning and form given to it by the variety of institutions in charge of combating food insecurity and food crises in Burkina Faso. This country, which is facing worsening food insecurity due to armed conflicts since 2015, is a particularly relevant case study: ‘resilience’ oriented food security projects have been multiplied, especially in especially in the most insecure peripheral regions. In order to analyse the contours of ‘food security resilience’ in this developing context, we have listed and coded all the projects/programmes that have been carried out in its name between December 2013 and December 2020. We analyse this material, supplemented by interviews with NGOs and cooperation actors, using the tools of graph theory: each project listed is seen as carrying one or more approaches, whose interrelationships we try to grasp. We show that several ‘networks of meaning’ emerge around resilience, without emerging as consensus paradigms. Based on network analysis, we explain this non-emergence by a double phenomenon of convergence towards the centre (an all-encompassing definition blurring the boundaries between approaches) and fragmentation at the margins (very specific definitions tending to reify and isolate approaches).</p>