"livelihood needs" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the basic needs that someone needs in order to sustain life, such as food, shelter, and clothing. For example, "Many people living in poverty lack access to basic livelihood needs."
The longer-term livelihood needs of refugees and displaced people are not systematically addressed (pdf).
Privatization of livestock, reduced government support, and immediate livelihood needs have affected traditional herding practices and human-environment dynamics.
"Government work and fiscal outlays must continue to be tilted toward livelihood needs," he added, naming education, health care and housing as among the spending priorities.
Conservation policy and practice is increasingly turning towards market-based interventions to reconcile the growing conflicts between environmental conservation and rural livelihood needs.
Also, the inability of park-based benefits to reduce the probability of resource extraction implies that benefits need to be more targeted to livelihood needs.
Concerns surrounding the promotion of national and international conservation agendas at the expense of local livelihood needs have generated interest in community conservation projects that attempt to include local participation and knowledge in natural resource management.
Those that took to the streets and destroyed their neighbors property and livelihood, need to show that they believe in compensating injustice, by paying for the damage they have done for without that, any claims that they believe in compensation for wrongs done cannot be believed.
Management of farms, crops, livestock, aquaculture and capture fisheries to balance near-term food security and livelihoods needs with priorities for adaptation and mitigation.
The Acehnese who lost their livelihoods needed food, but there was actually plenty of food to be bought.
Livelihoods need rebuilding, and there is a still a huge amount of awareness-raising to be done in terms of the acceptance of survivors".
"I hope UNHCR does not now simply become a passive observer at a time when increasing numbers of displaced Afghan families, who have lost their homes and livelihoods, need assistance and protection the most," Carter said.
