A sustainable land sector is key to achieving several of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets (UN, 2015) representing the shared environmental, social, and economic aspirations of all UN member nations (Herrero et al., 2021). However, the feasibility of achieving multiple SDG targets in the land sector has been questioned due to the inherent trade-offs involved and calls have been made to redouble efforts in the search for sustainable future pathways (Gao & Bryan, 2017). Multiple land-use models have been developed both as stand-alone models and as a part of multi-sectoral integrated assessment models to understand the complex relationships and dynamics underpinning land-system sustainability (