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Demands on peri-urban landscapes are increasing and diversifying. These landscapes typically fulfil different functions, including agriculture, ecosystem services and may also host species and habitats of conservation concern. Designing landscapes that can simultaneously meet multiple competing demands is an important challenge. Addressing this challenge requires methods that can provide a clear understanding of the trade-offs between biodiversity, production and ecosystem services, and that can assist in effectively navigating these through planning. Here, we tested the degree to which landscape optimization algorithms can do so, for an intensively-used area in the Netherlands. We optimized land use/land management to increase fruit yield, endangered species habitat, and landscape aesthetics, while minimizing losses in dairy farming, and assessed the trade-offs among these objectives. We …