We give a review of recent progress on the application of the relativistic chiral SU (3) Lagrangian to meson-baryon scattering. It is shown that a combined chi-ral and 1/N c expansion of the Bethe-Salpeter interaction kernel leads to a good description of the kaon-nucleon, antikaon-nucleon and pion-nucleon scattering data typically up to laboratory momenta of p lab ≃ 500 MeV. We solve the covar...
