Mixed production regimes are much more amenable for some commodities (such as coffee and cocoa; SCI, 2013) than for others (such as palm oil; Donald, 2004). Oneoption being promoted in West Africa, for example, is to incorporate ‘new’ tree commodity crops such as allanblackia, a tree whose seed yields edible oil with significant potential in the global food market, with cocoa production (Jamnadass et al., 2010). When allanblackia trees have matured, farmers’ incomes will be distributed more evenly through the year, as allanblackia and cocoa have different production seasons (Novella Africa, 2013). To support diverse production systems, genetic selection for commoditycrop cultivars that do well under shademaybe of particular importance (Mohan Jain and Priyadarshan, 2009). This may require returning to wild genetic resources still found in shaded, mixed-species forest habitats.