《农科学术英语》以《大学英语教学指南（2020版）》为指导，结合普通高等农业院校人才培养方向和目标组织编写，是大学英语课程体系的拓展。教材选取最新与农业相关的知识和学科专业发展材料，将学科知识的学习、语言的学习以及社会经济文化各方面的学习融合起来，覆盖内容广泛，涉及农业学科领域的方方面面，如农业经济、农业设施、动物科学、食品科学、园林园艺、植物保护等。
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Unit 1 Agricultural Economics
Text A "Pivoting" by Food Industry Firms to Cope with COVID-19 in Developing Regions: E-commerce and "Copivoting" Delivery Intermediaries
Text B Poverty Alleviation with Chinese Characteristics: Lessons for Developing Nations
Unit 2 Agricultural Technology
Text A Can Indoor Vertical Farms Provide a Promising Future for Agriculture?
Text B Electro Culture Helps China's New Agricultural Revolution
Unit 3 Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine
Text A Gene-editing Method Revives Hopes for Transplanting Pig Organs into People
Text B The Ox in Myth and History
Unit 4 Food Science
Text A What Is the Best Way to Cook Vegetables?
Text B The Science Behind Chocolate
Unit 5 Landscape Gardening and Horticulture
Text A An Alternative Urban Green Carpet: How Can We Move to Sustainable Lawns in a Time of Climate Change?
Text B Agritourism
Unit 6 Plant Conservation
Text A Plant Conservation
Text B Predicting Range Shifts for Critically Endangered Plants: Is Habitat Connectivity Irrelevant or Necessary?
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