This paper aims to show the relevance that institutions governing common-pool resources (CPRs) play in peasant resilience. It outlines nine variables for resilience taken from socio-economic and ecological anthropological theories focusing on subsistence and minimax strategies and used for the comparative historical analysis of African case studies. These include drylands (Morocco, Ghana), semi-arid areas (Sierra Leone, Malawi, Tanzania) and wetlands (Cameroon, Kenya, Zambia). The variables could be found under pre-colonial common property but were no longer operating during colonial and postcolonial institutional change from common to state property and privatisation via land grabbing, leading to commons and resilience grabbing.

本文旨在展示管理公共资源 (CPR) 的机构在农民复原力中发挥的相关性。它概述了九个弹性变量，这些变量取自社会经济和生态人类学理论，侧重于生存和极小化策略，并用于非洲案例研究的比较历史分析。其中包括旱地（摩洛哥、加纳）、半干旱地区（塞拉利昂、马拉维、坦桑尼亚）和湿地（喀麦隆、肯尼亚、赞比亚）。这些变量可以在前殖民时期的公共财产下找到，但在殖民和后殖民制度从公共财产转变为国有财产和通过土地掠夺私有化期间不再起作用，从而导致公地和弹性掠夺。