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Impact chain

Forest Flavors, CRS Innovative Finance

Four states: baseline, adding SMEs, adding CRS-directed lending, and market-driven lending Baseline shows CRS providing technical assistance directly to farmers. Adding SMEs introduces an SME box connected to farmers, numbered one and two to show farmers come first. Adding lending introduces a CRS Social Ventures Fund and a lender, with the fund setting lending criteria for the lender, numbered so the lender is third. The market-driven state keeps the same boxes and arrows, but the number one slides from the farmers badge to the lender badge and the number three slides from the lender badge to the farmers badge, crossing paths in the middle, so the lender becomes first and farmers become third. The fund-to-lender arrow label changes from setting criteria to the lender's own credit decision, and the farmers subtitle changes to note they are linked via the lender. Changed labels turn amber with a small dot marker that persists while this state is selected. CRS Technical assistance SME 2 Farmers Forest Flavors farmers Farmers linked via lender Works with Farmer livelihoods & environmental performance CRS Social Ventures Fund Raises capital Lender Local bank or fund manager Sets criteria Own credit decision Loans 1 3