'subsistence needs' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in discussions and writing about poverty, referring to the minimum needs that must be met in order to sustain life. For example, "In areas of extreme poverty, the population often struggles to meet their subsistence needs."
Even now, there is no over-all food shortage when measured by global subsistence needs.
The precolonial Nsenga were avid hunters, both for subsistence needs and for the ivory trade with the Portuguese.
In practice, it appears that the subsistence needs of a family of six members are fully met.
Delays in receiving wage payments reduce poor rural households' ability to manage economic uncertainty and meet their subsistence needs.
But the fact they pushed it back to do science and study community and subsistence needs sends a very strong signal".
To limit a periodic alimony award based on the bare-bones subsistence needs of a wife is gender bias, claims the plaintiff...
These impacts range from direct hunting for trophy or subsistence needs, through vehicular collisions, to the direct loss of habitat due to forestry and agricultural activity.
Other countries have imposed export restrictions while setting their own limits on domestic hunting and sales — an issue that requires delicate negotiations with native communities that rely on bears for food, skins and other subsistence needs.
The neo-evolutionist Leslie White reacted to the idealism of the cultural approach, turning his attention to the progress of technology in harnessing energy to serve the survival and subsistence needs of cultures.
In fact, the agricultural revolution resulted in a decrease in living standards for the vast majority of humanity.Hunter-gatherers usually only had to work a few hours a day at subsistence needs.
A theme to which Mohist texts return repeatedly is the problem of meeting the basic subsistence needs of the common people.
