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Background Dairy production has opposing effects on climate change. It generates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but can regulate climate through carbon storage in soils. Hence, cattle rearing management techniques can strongly impact on the sustainability of this activity. Nevertheless, studies reveal that knowledge gaps exist amongst French Dairy farme ...

Past projects have showed that measures such as grass strips, grassed waterways, green manure, reduced tillage (no-till farming),... can play an efficient role in the fight against soil erosion. Yet, these solutions arenot widespread. The achievement of a number of measures on a parcel downstream does not have much sense if no measures are taken upstream on the parcels where the flow and the sedim ...