This document sums up the methods and analysis used in the French case study to delineate and chose EU relevant farms types and agri-environmental zones that represent the variety of soil related issues in France. We started from a presentation of the main soil types in France and of their localization. We focus then on the main farm types, and spatialised them on these soil types. From this information, we have extracted prototypical combinations of farms-types and soil types that we have related to the agri-environmental zones delineated by WUR. Each prototypical combination has then been depicted in terms of rotations and current farming practices, from which we chose four prototypes in which to survey farmers’ opinion about soil related BMPs.