since income transfers to individual fanners by some emerging and developing countries have been increasing driven in part by rising levels of development and incomes within these countries and for some a push towards policies aimed at achieving selfsufficiency in particular agricultural products in developed countries a mix of refonns and changes in world food prices has played a role in the changes observed in the total levels of support in the eight emerging economies for which the oecd collects information on agricultural policies accounted for just under of the total measured pse oecd and emerging economies