This document deals with interrelationships between growth, development and land use planning, and about new approaches to development and land use planning in rural agriculture. It is mainly aimed at contributing to new land use planning processes, promoted through a modern POT program, proposing elements for reflection and analysis that allow us to transcend the traditional approach to land use planning focused on physical aspects of land use and a sectoral treatment, limited to the systemic nature of the territory and the need to broadly include processes of social construction of the territory.