<p>Following statements in the Plenary session of the Constitutional Court in March 2009, was declared unconstitutional Act 1152 of 2007, known as the “Rural Development Statute”, because it was argued that the no prior consultation indigenous communities, or communities of African descendent. Now this was the main reason why the statute considered as a completely unconstitutional legislation. But with it, and derived from a purely media mechanism, a very personal omitted other important findings that should be considered from the approach which was sized the concept of rural development throughout the statute. Let this be an opportunity to understand the need to analyze rural development, in addition to inclusive, is a process subject to hegemonic paradigms and models of economic growth and social development. To this end, this article aims to clear some conceptual considerations and approach, important to emphasize in the new draft land law and rural development, which would replace the status politically considered unconstitutional in 2009.</p>