Rice in less favorable environments often faces several abiotic stresses within the same season. Improved varieties need to incorporate tolerances to multiple stresses to cope with current conditions and future adversities caused by climate change. Good progress has been made over the past decades. The first part of this session Adaptive Traits for Better Resilience will provide examples from recent developments in trait and gene discovery, packaging of these traits into high yielding varieties and their delivery to needy farmers in target areas. In most cases, stress tolerant varieties need to be managed differently to maximize their supremacy in farmers’ fields. Certain management practices that work in intensive systems could either have similar effects, no effect or negative effects in less favorable areas. The second part, Augmenting Tolerance with Best Practice, will highlight the importance and specificity of proper management for stress tolerant varieties and provide some examples from field applications.