The phrase "affect livelihoods" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of certain actions, policies, or events on people's means of living or economic well-being.
Example: "The new environmental regulations may significantly affect livelihoods in the fishing community."
Alternatives: "impact livelihoods" or "influence livelihoods".
Acute ecological impacts will adversely affect livelihoods of more than 1 million people in 41 riparian municipalities by reducing local access to fisheries resources, clean water, crop production sites, hydroelectric power generation and raw materials.
Severe cold and energy shortages in winter often disrupt basic services and affect livelihoods.
Firstly, the high levels of perceived risk show that the population believes temperatures are rising and are likely to affect livelihoods and health.
Such actions can affect livelihoods, which are often reliant on village poultry production, as a source of food and income [ 13].
The outcomes of international trade negotiations –especially on sugar and bananas- may also significantly affect livelihoods and poverty status of thousands of rural Jamaican children.
In view of the fact that physical injuries and disaster disabilities may additionally contribute to mental health and affect livelihoods and hence economics of the disaster impacts at an individual level, developing standardized outcome measures is mandated.
Hydrometeorological hazards particularly affect livelihood conditions and economic development in rural areas, as they rely on rain fed agriculture.
Drought or changes in rainfall seasonality affect livelihood conditions and strongly impact capacities to sustain life (Baudoin et al. 2014; Nicholson 2014).
The case suggests that actors sense of control over their resource base and perception of justice in the process of institutional design may be as significant in vulnerability as the exogenous drivers of change that affect livelihood outcomes.
"Critics are laying too much at the altar of trade but it affects livelihoods and futures and it has to be debated seriously".
As head of the bureau's outpost in northeast Utah, he and his colleagues make decisions that have affected livelihoods and largely favored oil and natural gas companies eager to join in a national energy boom.
