Chair of AgForce’s mining taskforce, Ian Burnett, said the future of sustainable, safe and fresh food is the price Australia will pay if more prime land is gobbled up by the resource sector.

"A year after the State Government held community mining summit meetings into land use and competition, we are still waiting to see any progress that they are committed to preserving good quality ag land in the face of development impacts such as gas and mining," Mr Burnett said.

"The establishment and maintenance of gas and mining infrastructure impacts on a small percentage of the landscape – but this percentage is the area which is capable of producing food in perpetuity so there needs to be appropriate planning frameworks and policies in place to protect it."

Mr Burke is heading an Australian delegation to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisations World Food Security Summit in Rome next week, and Mr Burnett said this was a timely message to the Queensland government to deliver an outcome in the "farming versus mining" debate.

"We are constantly seeing some of our most productive cropping regimes being threatened through the complete lack of public planning processes," Mr Burnett said.

"With the world facing global food shortages, it is important to preserve the productive ability of land which will certainly have a more sustainable output than that of a mineral deposit.

"Good quality agricultural land must be identified, using factors such as climatic conditions, soil types and structures, slope and capacity for continual production to set a benchmark to easily identify ‘iconic’ farming areas, and the appropriate policy framework to protect them."