Entire issue. Dual-language Spanish and English. EDITORIAL SECTION: Development of the fruit sector in Chile - Minister Carlos Mladinic Alonso. *Agriculture, rural development, environment and Ibero-American Cooperation - Minister Sergio Chiesa Duhalde. *The strategic role of the rural sector in the development of LAC - Gerardo Escudero. *What is CENERGEN? - Alfonso Celso Candeira Valois. *Environmental and natural resource management in Latin America and the Carbbean Region - Gertjan B. Beekman.