Charlotte Lane

Charlotte Lane
Designation: Nutrition Consultant, 3ie
Charlotte Lane is a nutrition and food security expert who has managed several of 3ie’s cross-sectoral evaluation and synthesis projects to support food systems transformation and the adoption of healthy diets.

Prior to her time with 3ie, Charlotte conducted research on HIV-exposed and -uninfected infants in sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked on community health and food security initiatives in Burkina Faso.

Blogs by author

Mapping evidence and gaps in interventions reducing anaemia in low- and middle-income countries

Ashiqun Nabi, Charlotte Lane, Daniel Lopez de Romaña, Alison Mildon 26 July 2023 blog
 
In 2019, 269 million children under five, 32 million pregnant women, and over half a billion women of reproductive age were reported to be affected by anaemia. The condition causes adverse health outcomes, delayed cognitive and physical development in children, and reduced productivity which may lead to economic losses

3ie's living Food Systems Evidence and Gap Map: Mixed mid-term findings and project extension

Charlotte Lane, Ingunn Storhaug 11 July 2023 blog
 
3ie has now been engaging in its ambitious living evidence mapping process for three years. The mid-term report showed a mixed message: although we have added 267 impact evaluations and systematic reviews of impact evaluations to the map in the last two years, the rate of expansion in the evidence base has slowed since 2019.

Five lessons from our Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) reviews

Chandan Jain, Charlotte Lane, Andrew Tangang, Jennifer Sturdy, Bidisha Barooah 22 March 2023 blog
 
We have been consolidating our efforts to develop stronger systems for producing transparent, reproducible, and ethical evidence (TREE). We have emphasized asking ourselves the right questions at the right times, even when there are no easy answers. We’ve examined very specific questions such as: Does a state of scarcity or equipoise make it ethical to withhold an intervention from a control group?

3ie Living Evidence Gap Map: New food systems evaluations focus on the big picture

Charlotte Lane, Ingunn Storhaug 20 January 2023 blog
 
Food systems transformation is a global problem, and increasingly evaluations of food systems interventions are considering national and transnational solutions. The world's food system is under threat from the “three Cs” – COVID, climate, and conflict. As the Food and Agriculture Organization notes, the war in Ukraine brought these threats into sharp focus in 2022, pushing the already high global food prices even higher. To mitigate the effects of, and eventually recover from, these shocks, we need to know what interventions are effective at improving food security and nutrition, who they work for, and what they cost. In our newest update to our living Evidence Gap Map we've added 72 new studies, some of which show positive effects of nation-wide plans to shift land ownership policies.

Groundbreaking studies now part of 3ie's Food Systems and Nutrition Evidence Gap Map

Charlotte Lane, Ingunn Storhaug, Rike Riesmeier, Tina Koch 18 August 2022 blog
 
In June 2022, a high-level expert group from the European Commission called for independent and up-to-date reports on the scientific evidence about food systems transformation. We certainly agree this work is essential – that’s why we’ve been producing such reports since 2020 as part of 3ie’s living Food Systems and Nutrition Evidence Gap Map (EGM). In our latest update, we add groundbreaking studies to the map, including one on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes.