  Results from an ongoing study of baryon-baryon systems with strangeness S=-1
and -2 within chiral effective field theory are reported. The investigations
are based on the scheme proposed by Weinberg which has been applied rather
successfully to the nucleon-nucleon interaction in the past. Results for the
hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions obtained to leading order are
reviewed. Specifically, the issue of extrapolating the binding energy of the
H-dibaryon, extracted from recent lattice QCD simulations, to the physical
point is addressed. Furthermore, first results for the hyperon-nucleon
interaction at next-to-leading order are presented and discussed.
