Learning module 5: Using insights
Guiding questions:
- What processes help to uptake the insights from synergies and trade-offs assessments?
- What are key enabling factors for these processes?
In this module reflections, challenges, processes and opportunities are described that are of importance for improving use of insights on synergies and tradeoffs. The learning materials in this module go beyond the assessment of trade-offs and synergies, and ask the question how to move from insight to action. They bring together various perspectives, lived-through experiences, and insights from engaging in multi sectoral policy and agricultural management processes.
For more of an orientation about this module click here or dive directly into the learning materials below.

interview
‘Boosting synergies and managing trade-offs in food systems,’ the sixth webinar in WLE’s ‘Research to resilience’ series: how synergies and trade-offs between the social, economic and environmental outcomes in food and agricultural systems can be more sustainably and productively managed.
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interview
In this interview Dr Namokulo Covic elaborates on the interactions between nutrition and the environment.
By Namokulo Covic
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interview
Pablo Tittonell shares his insights on multifunctional agriculture and the evolution that he sees in research programs and institutes to address this.
By Pablo Tittonell
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Lessons learned
Synergies can be cultivated between between land restoration and gender equality goals.
By Marlène Elias
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Looking ahead
Without understanding people’s opportunity spaces, talking about their adaptive capacity is void of meaning.
By Anne Rietveld
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Tools & methods
Knowledge brokering framework for integrated landscape management. WLE brought together and discussed a series of processes and tools to actively support decision-making around multiple goals in landscape management.
Led by Dan McGonigle
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Tools & methods
The Innovative Food Systems Solutions (IFSS) Platform supports actionable synergies between nutrition and environmental goals.
By IFSS Platform Collaborative Initiative
read moreQuestion for reflection
When synergies and tradeoffs are clear, what are some of the barriers of acting upon that knowledge, in your context? What can be some of the solutions to address these barriers?
How can better understanding of synergies and tradeoffs, contribute to building mutual understanding and trust between actors in food, land and water systems?
Some examples:



