We provide non-smooth atomic decompositions for Besov spaces B s p,q (R n ), s > 0, 0 < p, q ≤ ∞, defined via differences. The results are used to compute the trace of Besov spaces on the boundary Γ of bounded Lipschitz domains Ω with smoothness s restricted to 0 < s < 1 and no further restrictions on the parameters p, q. We conclude with some more applications in terms of pointwise multipliers.Math Subject Classifications (MSC2010): 46E35, 42B35, 47B38.