Green Extension (GE) is an agroecological approach to rural advisory services endorsed by Lao PDR's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. GE was developed by the Lao Upland Rural Advisory Service and builds on 20 years of cooperation between the extension department and Helvetas. GE supports farmers' socio-ecological learning through participatory action research, farmer field schools, and farmer-to-farmer exchanges to test and adapt sustainable agriculture practices suited to local conditions. The key is creating, sharing, and applying local knowledge through a learning process where farmers actively generate and share knowledge. While past efforts often failed to scale up, LURAS addresses this by establishing learning centers and multipliers to dissemin