Abstract:Based on Hicks analysis, using the survey data of farmers who taking parting in the forestry carbon sequestration project which named Novartis forestry carbon sequestration, community and biodiversity afforestation project in southwestern Sichuan, this paper studies the farmers’ willingness to accept ecological compensation from government during taking part in the project, and measures the compensation range by using opportunity cost method and contingent valuation method. Then uses Tobit model to analyze influence factors of forest carbon sequestration ecological compensation amount which farmers willing to get. The result shows that the farmers all have willingness to obtain compensation, the amount of compensation from 1758 yuan.mu -1.a-1 to 2025 yuan.mu -1.a-1. Years of education, the main source of income, the area of land participated, the amount of reduced livestock, the distance from family to the recent market, the conditions of village’s collective economic have a significant impact on the amount of compensation for farmers. This study has some reference value for the government to formulate forest carbon sequestration ecological compensation and poverty alleviation policy.