The phrase "a loss of livelihood" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of an event or situation that affects someone's ability to earn a living.
Example: "The factory closure resulted in a significant loss of livelihood for many workers in the community."
Alternatives: "loss of income" or "loss of employment".
Achievement of this indicator may not prevent a loss of livelihood or an inability to live with dignity.
Although this has improved road safety, it's meant a loss of livelihood for some, like Baoqiang, a middle-aged man who left school at 16 and has few skills except driving.
Having headed an official panel which produced a report recommending that the project should go ahead, she lectured protesters on the folly of their resistance against the multi-billion-dollar, Chinese-backed project which will result in a loss of livelihood, displacement and serious water pollution for local people.
Since the rains abated, people have returned to clear and clean their homes, trying to ascertain what is left, what is salvageable, as have a million others across the country and in neighbouring Serbia and Croatia, most of them uninsured and facing a loss of livelihood.
She disapproves of the "funny system" in which refusal to toe the party line can end in a loss of livelihood, and talks fondly of the MPs of Trollope's day who weren't paid and therefore didn't lose a salary if ousted.
Children and adults interviewed reported cases of reduced food intake during and after a disaster due to a loss of livelihood and subsistence crops.
While flooding afflicts the country's northern and central regions, the population in the south has been overwhelmed by a severe drought, which has led to undernutrition, water and sanitation problems and a loss of agricultural livelihood.
The complaint argued that the villagers had suffered a "loss of land, livelihoods and wellbeing as a result of the bank's non-compliance with its own policies in its technical assistance to prepare a framework designed to forcefully resettle us to make way for a Bank financed new coal power plant".
In impoverished villages where people survive on subsistence farming, the wreckage pointed to misery yet to come: the bloated corpses of drowned livestock and tangles of uprooted crops, representing a crucial loss of livelihood.
Every bruise, every imperfection, means a loss of money and our livelihood".
Fail a drugs test and the punishment is a ban from competition (usually for four years, sometimes for life), which means a loss of both honour and livelihood.
