The phrase "affecting the subsistence of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the impact on the basic necessities or survival of individuals, communities, or ecosystems.
Example: "The new policy is affecting the subsistence of local farmers, making it difficult for them to sustain their livelihoods."
Alternatives: "impacting the survival of" or "influencing the livelihood of".
Climate change is particularly thought to be adversely affecting the livelihoods in rural locations because of dependence on subsistence agriculture and the vagaries of monsoon rain and unpredictable floods.
The impact of drought among pastoral communities normally manifests itself in the form of livestock losses, which adversely affects the provision of subsistence, income, and other sociocultural goods and services to a pastoral household.
Individuals affected with this mental ailment are with disrupted mood that affects their basic subsistence of life (Murray et al. 2013).
These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the Neolithic transition to subsistence economies based on the domestication of food plants and animals modified the selective regime affecting the NAT2 acetylation pathway.
Furthermore, as the Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights state, "[article 4] was not meant to introduce limitations on rights affecting the subsistence…of the person".
The crisis, however, extends well beyond the daily flow of refugees into Kenya and Ethiopia: it is also affecting millions of subsistence farmers and pastoralists in these two countries who are dependent on the rains for their survival.
"The inadequacies — more than just a handful and more than mere imperfections — left entire subjects of central interest to the affected First Nations, sometimes subjects affecting their subsistence and well-being, entirely ignored," said the ruling.
At independence the export economy was flourishing without adversely affecting subsistence agriculture, and the economy continued to improve, largely because of the high demand and high prices for coffee.
In the Peruvian Amazon, the presence of parasites associated with zoonotic diseases is affected by subsistence hunting, sale of bush meat for human consumption, and increased human contact with wild animals (1 ).
Agriculture of any type - subsistence, organic or intensive - affects the environment, so it is natural to expect that the use of new genetic techniques in agriculture will also affect the environment.
Other subtle factors in the ecological milieu, such as variations in the chemical components of the soil, may also affect fungal subsistence.
