'disrupt livelihood' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an event or action that negatively affects someone's job or source of income. For example, "The recent natural disaster has severely disrupted the livelihood of many people in the area."
Violent conflicts claim lives, disrupt livelihoods, and halt delivery of essential services, such as health care and education.
Full report [PDF] Country chapter [PDF] Mozambique map [PDF] Mozambique is still attempting to rebuild after more than a decade of civil war, while the threat of natural disasters continues to disrupt livelihoods and services, exhaust limited coping mechanisms and exacerbate populations' vulnerabilities.
Included are catastrophic risks of death, injury, ill-health and disrupted livelihood, extreme weather events, mortality and morbidity, food insecurity, loss of rural livelihood and loss of marine and coastal ecosystems.
Distraught Thai, Laotian and Cambodian fisherman and farmers blame Chinese dams for killing off fish stocks, cutting irrigation and disrupting livelihoods.
Some tribal Shiites, who back Hezbollah politically but resent the way it has supplanted their traditional power, voice discomfort with the fighting that has disrupted livelihoods and community ties and want it to end as soon as possible.
In addition to seriously disrupting livelihoods and economic activities, disasters are significant burdens that hinder progress in many regions of the world.
This significantly disrupted livelihoods as people were displaced from their land and other places of work.
The floods have cut off many transport routes, wrecked buildings and disrupted livelihoods, particularly in southern areas.
Above all, significant stress can also result from floods because of damage to property; disrupted livelihoods and loss of social networks (12).
"The typhoon has totally disrupted livelihoods," said Fernando Gonzalez, Governor of Albay, the province in Bicol most severely ravaged by the typhoon.
